#th

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#self-worth #wrong

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#sword #truth #wrong

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus. ↗

— John Green

#names #perception #the-fault-in-our-stars #perception

There are times in which one must learn to give up... ↗

— Ashita no Ousama

#easy #hard #hope #jealous #manga

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#daughters #expectations #fathers #ideals #perception

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#empathy #pity #sisters

Kill me, little sister. Kill me and you kill Jace, too. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #sebastian-verlac #sister-and-brother #sisters

Wow." I hadn't thought Dimitri could be any cooler, but I was wrong. "You beat up your dad. I mean, that's really horrible...what happened. But, wow. You really are a god." He blinked. "What?" "Uh, nothing. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#mead #richelle #vampire #nothing

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#thought

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#originality #unique #thought