Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
— John Steinbeck, The Winter Of Our Discontent
Tagged: Life, world and humanity
“Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Life
“I suppose that’s what life’s about. People come and go.”
— Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie
Tagged: Life
“She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.”
— David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Tagged: Identity & Self
“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Self-improvement
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Tagged: Self-Confidence, Self-Identity
“Even a small star shines in the darkness.”
— Swedish Proverb, Swedish Proverbs
Tagged: Hope
“I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.”
— William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Tagged: Living
“How does your life move forward, when all you want to do is hold still.”
— Nina LaCour, Hold Still
Tagged: Life, Pacing
“My earbuds were in, but I wasn’t playing music. I needed to hear the world but didn’t want the world to know I was listening.”
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
Tagged: Life