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He was so busy socializing, making sure people approved and liked him, he didn't notice his precious ticks of time slipping away. He was so popular. But now...I was famous.
Coco J. Ginger
Rewriting the world one heart at a time.
I want to read, write, and nothing else. I do not want to get married, I do not want to go to church, I do not want to file taxes; I do not want to eat. But Grandma disagrees, and Grandma always wins.
Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow
Larry Michael Dredla
Smile. Your eyes sparkle when you do.
Tar-heart baby, let me be, let me shine bright, stop making fun of me. Stop bringing up my past un-funs.
I am torn open, unabridged, hot and a bit crazy inside. This is the feeling which belongs to me, she has always been mine.
Every fairytale has a villain. All high quality happy endings involve a black-hearted monster. I just didn't want you to be mine.
You're too big for another heart beat, unable to sync with my capricious heart beating.
My insides turn outward in acknowledgement of your absence. My heart slips out of my chest and down into my gut.
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.Our government's got a war on drugs....But get this: The two most widely abused and addictive and destructive of all substances are both perfectly legal.One, of course, is ethyl alcohol. And President George W. Bush, no less, and by his own admission, was smashed, or tiddley-poo, or four sheets to the wind a good deal of time from when he was sixteen until he was forty. When he was forty-one, he says, Jesus appeared to him and made him knock off the sauce, stop gargling nose paint.Other drunks have seen pink elephants.
Kurt Vonnegut
Some chase after their dream job, while others CREATE their dream job.
This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.
Jodi Picoult
Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!
Terry Pratchett
What addiction really has to do with is the speed of rewards.
Natasha Schull