#diction

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #diction




Saying things like "you must hit rock bottom before you can rise up" is just an excuse for not doing the effort of rising up earlier. When you hit rock bottom you must rise up - because you have no other option.


Fergus MacDermott


#inspirational #inspirational

What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how can an animal get so removed from nature that it loses the instinct to keep itself alive?


Amy Reed


#eating-disorders #life #loss #life

Addiction isn't about using drugs. It's about what the drug does to your life.


Enock Maregesi


#life

I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv.


Jess C. Scott


#anti-twilight #dark-humor #drugs #gluttony #heroin

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing. I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.


Clint Catalyst


#apathy #ennui #loneliness #love-lost #love

Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull


Steve Aylett


#life #love #life

«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.” “That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»


Bruce Sterling


#prediction #scifi #love

Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty.


Krista Ritchie


#childhood-friends #college-romance #love-story #love

YANNI “JOHNNY” BACOLAS: I would always tell him, “Layne [Staley], why don’t you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the best counselors, and just kick this shit? Go for six months if you have to.” And his rebuttal was, “Johnny, I have celebrity status and I have a lot of money. I could fly planes out to deliver me the dope if I wanted to — and that’s what I would do. I can’t escape.


Greg Prato


#celebrity #heroin #money

When I say, Be my lover, I don't mean, Let's have an affair. I don't mean, Sleep with me. I don't mean, Be my secret. I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.


David Levithan


#quote #the-lover-s-dictionary #love