#quite

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#actual #actual experience #am #divorce #end

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#buildings #close #contain #degree #dreams

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#be careful #because #box #brown #browns

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#film #fun #get #i #making

These opportunities don't come around too often. It's quite an honor and a privilege to be able to sit here today saying that I'm a part-owner of an NFL team. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#around #come #here #honor #i

We're cool," I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had. ↗

— Christine Seifert

#love

I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?" She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? "Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?" She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him. "Because," he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, "I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don't. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #declarations-of-love #love #paranormal

He doesn't even like me. I let the thought roll around in my head. Anything I feel during that time gets shoved into the vault with the ten-foot-think door slamming as soon as it goes in, just in case something in there has any intention of crawling out. ↗

— Susan Ee

#love

One sided-love always goes with the urge of possessing. ↗

— Yu-Rang Han

#unrequited-love #love

For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#masochism #unrequited-love #love