#up

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#apple #apples #cart #rot #upset

One of the odd things about living in an apartment was that you could walk out of someone's life but still have to wait for the elevator. (p.220) ↗

— James Collins

#life

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight? —What weight? —The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water? —We are not vessels; we are missiles. —We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden. —We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#life #maturity #life

I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

I was fine before you came into my life. And I bet I’ll be just fine without you in it again. ↗

— Nina Ardianti

#move-on #separation #life

Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#life #limitations #love #power #stand-out

Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while. ↗

— Sara Quin

#heartthrob #makeup #messedup #now-im-all-messed-up #sara-quin

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#baby #childe #cynic #cynicism #enemy

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#group #i #i think #microsoft #operating

Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning - and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better not to know the lyrics to your life. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#music #life