Thursday, January 29, 2009

Great Quotes

The best moments in reading are when you come across something- a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things- that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
-The History Boys


It doesn't seem right to let go of something you've had for so long, but it doesn't seem right, either, to hold on to something that's just not there anymore.


In your whole life, nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself and the limit of your self abuse is exactly the limit of abuse that you will tolerate from someone else.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.