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This might have been a funny story if it weren't for the fact that people need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.

Revenge of the Lawn, Richard Brautigan

#submitted #Revenge of the Lawn #Richard Brautigan #daintyyetdangerous #submission

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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

#Kafka on the Shore #Haruki Murakami

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The more I suffer, the more I love.

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink

#The Reader #Bernhard Schlink

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I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.

Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

#sputnik sweetheart #haruki murakami

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I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

The Gum Thief, Douglas Coupland

#The Gum Thief #Douglas Coupland

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If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer

#Everything Is Illuminated #Jonathan Safran Foer

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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.

The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman

#The Sandman #Neil Gaiman

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I still felt sad, and a little incomplete. I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurt even worse.

The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan

#The Red Pyramid #Rick Riordan

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We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

David Foster Wallace

#David Foster Wallace

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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

Joseph Campbell

#Joseph Campbell

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No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.

Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

#Invisible Monsters #Chuck Palahniuk

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All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’”

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

#The Great Gatsby #F. Scott Fitzgerald

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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

The Cost of Living, Arundhati Roy

#The Cost of Living #Arundhati Roy

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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

A Dollar and Twenty Cents, Charles Bukowski

#Charles Bukowski #A Dollar and Twenty Cents

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People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.

The Liberation of Max McTrue, Kim Culbertson

#Kim Culbertson #The Liberation of Max McTrue

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She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

The Hours, Michael Cunningham

#Michael Cunningham #The Hours

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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

It's Kind of a Funny Story, Ned Vizzini

#It's Kind of a Funny Story #Ned Vizzini