#pie

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity. ↗

— James Frey

#drugs #inspirational #james #inspirational

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#always #american #apple #apple pie #con

George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge ↗

— John le Carré

#british-intelligence #george-smiley #ian-bannon #ian-richardson #moles

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger. ↗

— Carrie Jones

#entice #fix #fractures #glue #harm

The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces. ↗

— James Frey

#life #million #pieces #sad #life

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. ↗

— Helen Keller

#happier #ourselve #life

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#life #pieces #life

Yes. Da, I corrected. "Say it again." "What?" His voice grew husky as he repeated his request. "Say yes - in Russian - again." I blushed. "Da", I whispered. "Will you teach me more Russian, Pietr?" "Mm, only the important words," he promised. I bit back my request for the three most important words to me. "What words would you teach me?" "Pocelujte menyah." "What's that mean?" He groaned. "Repeat it tonight and perhaps I will show you. ↗

— Shannon Delany

#pietr #life

I held this girl in my arms She wrapped her tiny fingers around mine. It was then that I realized. She was the fusion. The glue. The cement that bound all my pieces together. The piece that seals my puzzle. The piece that completes my life. The element that makes me who I am. Who I was. Who I'll one day be. You, baby girl. You're my final piece. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#layken-cooper #my-final-piece #slam-poetry #will-cooper #life

The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#meaning-of-life #universe #universeing-occupied #life