If you have an identical twin, that makes you less unique than people on average, but more unusual because of it.
“I’ve always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that’s the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.”
— Carolyn Mackler, The Future of Us
“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
Gay people rely on straight people to make more gay people.
“A person can’t change all at once.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
Cats and dogs will never know how much they are worshipped on the internet
“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It’s our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn’t have.”
— Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
Every year, we pass the anniversary of the meteor that struck the earth and killed all the dinosaurs, but we’ll never know which day it is
“The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.”
— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
It’s very unsettling to see your friend lie convincingly to someone else
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence…”
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
It’s very unsettling to see your friend lie convincingly to someone else