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“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is to pretend you care about them more than you really do.”

— Douglas Coupland

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“It wasn’t that God didn’t respond, but that He responded with silence.”

— George Abraham, “Alternate Mythologies of Exile,” from Birthright

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“I learned a lot about being a friend when I was alone.”

— Tigers Jaw - Never Saw It Coming

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“Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.”

— William Chapman

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“I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it.”

— J.D. Salinger // The Catcher in the Rye

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“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

— Ernest Hemingway; The Sun Also Rises

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-but people never notice it. People never notice anything

J.D Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye

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J.D. Salinger / The Catcher in the Rye

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The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it

Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls (via elysiaaan)

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It’s a hard thing for me to grasp. The idea that you can be good at something and still not enjoy it.

Julie Murphy, Dumplin’

Submitted by: perletwo!

(via quoted-books)

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“You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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“You know,” he says, “logically, if a person was to pull another down, it would mean that he or she is already below that person.”

-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

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We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on

Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

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Maybe it's not all the little labels that make us who we are. Maybe it's how all those labels interact with the world around us

Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

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Photographer Sang Han