#to

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed.... ↗

— Ammon Shea

#phone-book #telephone-directory #dating

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#believe #concerns #give #i #influences

I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for… And I woke up! ↗

— Rahul Rampal

#fiction #inspirational #notorious #notorious-mind #novel

I just wouldn’t want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they’re both. Maybe it’s a blessing, because the last thing I need is relationship drama to sidetrack me from my grades. ↗

— Daria Snadowsky

#boyfriend #love #relationships #teenage-love #experience

It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things." "Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry. "I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#being-confident #being-in-love #being-strong #being-yourself #how-to-get-a-girl

A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#humor #story-people #friendship

Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#memory #experience

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. ↗

— Mark Twain

#experience

Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#humor #story-people #friendship