The world respects people who think they should be running it.
Isn’t that the definition of power?
Watching people kill themselves over something
that means nothing to you.
You can be sorry about something and not regret it.
…do yourself a favor and learn to grab life by the balls, dear.
Don’t be so tied up in trying to do the right thing
when the smart thing is so painfully clear.
Be wary of men with something to prove.
Here’s the thing about Hollywood. It’s both a place and a feeling. If you run there, you can run toward Southern California, where the sun always shines and the grimy buildings and dirty sidewalks are replaced by palm trees and orange groves. But you also run toward the way life is portrayed in the movies. You run toward a world that is moral and just, where the good guys win and the bad guys lose, where the pain you face is only in an effort to make you stronger,
so that you can win that much bigger in the end.
Praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it,
the more of it you need just to stay even.
…you have to push people’s boundaries and not feel bad about it.
No one is going to give you anything if you don’t ask for it.
Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.
People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You’re safe with me”—that’s intimacy.
If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you.
You know the key to impulsivity is believing you are invincible.
No one goes around throwing caution to the wind
unless the wind is blowing their way.
I love you too much to let you live only for me.
And of course, that’s the easiest lie to tell,
one you know the other person desperately wants to be true.
But accepting that something is true isn’t the same as thinking it is just.
You can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing.
That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.
I’d rather survive it than never feel it.
I hurt her with these tiny scratches, day after day.
And then I got surprised when it left a wound too big to heal.
I think being yourself – your true, entire self – is always
going to feel like you’re swimming upstream.
Some marriages aren’t really that great. Some loves aren’t all-encompassing.
Sometimes you separate because you weren’t that good together to begin with.
Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss.
Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog
Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.
Nobody deserves anything,” Evelyn says. “It’s simply a matter of who’s willing to go and take it for themselves. And you, Monique, are a person who has proven to be willing to go out there and take what you want. So be honest about that. No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they’re also painfully unoriginal.
When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things.
You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says,
“It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.
Charisma is “charm that inspires devotion“.
It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.
No one is all good or all bad.
Isn’t it awfully convenient,” Harry added, “that when men make the rules, the one thing that’s looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat? Imagine if every single woman on the planet wanted something in exchange when she gave up her body. You’d all be ruling the place. An armed populace. Only men like me would stand a chance against you. And that’s the last thing those assholes want, a world run by people like you and me.
Guilt is a feeling I’ve never made much peace with. I find that when it rears its head, it brings an army. When I feel guilty for one thing, I start to see all the other things I should feel guilty for.
She always made sure the bad was outweighed by so much good. I…well, I didn’t do that for her. I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.
When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone’s love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition.
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