"Sono un mostro invisibile, e sono incapace di amare. Non si sa cosa sia peggio."

- Chuck Palahniuk: “Invisible Monsters” (via unproductive-thinking)

"People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."

- The Grim Grotto, Lemony Snicket (via fyeahliteraryquotes)

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"The clock of doom had struck as fated; the poet, without a sound, let fall his pistol on the ground."

- Eugene Onegin, Aleksandr Pushkin (via fyeahliteraryquotes)

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."

- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (via fyeahliteraryquotes)

"The pretty lies, the ugly truth"

"I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them."

- Beverly Sills (via quotatiousquotations)

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills (via theydontwantustoescape)