Krissa Magdaluyo

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1,128 quotes curated by Krissa Magdaluyo:

“I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.”
— Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap: Poems
Tagged: Idea of a Person, Relationship, Person
“Of course I loved books more than people.”
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
Tagged: Books, People
“Oh, how people love to disappear from your life. Especially when you already got attached to them.”
— Anton Chekhov
Tagged: Relationship, Attachment
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Life, Young People, Indifferent Society, Adulthood
“The only person I ever want to be better than; is the person I was yesterday.”
— William Chapman
Tagged: Better Person
“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
Tagged: Brave, Brokenness
“The scariest thing about the world is knowing it goes on when you’re not there.”
— Eric Kahn Gale, The Bully Book: A Novel
Tagged: Life goes on, Missing Out, Importance
“We want someone that we can be at our weakest with, and not feel so. That our vulnerability isn’t taken advantage of, but taken care of.”
— Dae D. Lee
Tagged: Relationship, vulnerability
“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light
Tagged: Life, Darkness, Understanding, Light
“It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.”
— Helen Mirren, In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures
Tagged: Adulthood, Life