By Category: Quotes
“I wear my scars proudly.
They represent the battles through which I have gone,
And I am proud because
those battles I have won.”
-Aly
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“Then, it's Sem-Pernas's turn [to go on the merry-go-round]. He's silent, a weird emotion takes over. He walks over like a religious man goes to church, like a lover to the bosom of his loved one, like a suicidal person to death. He walks over pale and limping. He rides a blue horse that has stars painted on its wooden leg. His lips are tight, his ears don't hear the song that's playing. He can only see the lights that turn with him and he attaches himself to the certainty that he's in a merry-go-round, turning round and round in a horse like all those boys who have mothers and fathers, and a house, and someone to kiss them, someone to love them. He thinks he is one of these boys and closes his eyes to guard better this certainty. He can't see the policemen that beat him, the man in the jacket that laughed. (...) Sem-Pernas holds on tight to his horse. It's as if he ran over an ocean of stars, in the most marvelous journey of the world. A journey like the one Professor had never read or invented. His heart beats so much, so much, that he holds it in his hand.”
-Capitães da Areia, Jorge Amado
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“'You're a twisted fuck.'
'No, I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.'”
-American Beauty [movie]
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“I had always heard that your entire life flashes before your eyes the second before you die. Only that one second isn't a second at all, it seems to stretch out forever like an ocean of time. For me it was lying on my back at boy scout camp, watching falling stars. And the maple trees that line our street. Or my grandmother's hands, and how her skin seemed like paper. And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird. And Janey. And my last thought was of Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to be angry when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes, I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and I can't take it. My heart swells up like a balloon that's about to burst. But then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold onto it. And then, it flows through me like rain and I feel nothing but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry. You will someday.”
-American Beauty [movie]
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“Janie is a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her all that's going to pass. But I don't want to lie to her.”
-American Beauty [movie]
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“Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.”
-American Beauty [movie]
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“Has anything you've done made your life better?”
-American History X [movie]
Recommended by Alyssa.
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“I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair;
but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.
Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why.
My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days.
I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy.
I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.”
-American Psycho [movie]
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“I never talk about this and it helps the healing process to do so. Because people out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done. emotionally, I mutilated myself by feeling I'm not worthy of being loved and fucked, and being able to love and fuck at the same time. I was straining toward the reconciliation the last time we talked but the last frontier was crossed when I got the illness. At that point I had to deal with so much trauma in that part of my body and psyche. I do believe repression of that nature can cause the disease.”
-Tori Amos
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“she's been everybody else's girl
maybe one day she'll be her own.”
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“Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.”
-Tori Amos
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“You say 'There's not a lot of me left anymore- just leave it alone.
But if you're by, and you have the time,
Tell the Northern Lights to keep shining -
Lately it seems like they're drowning'”
-Amber Waves, Tori Amos
Recommended by Shay.
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“so they went
years and years
like sisters
blanket girls
always there through that and this
there's nothing we cannot ever fix.”
-Bells For Her, Tori Amos
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“Is it right, butterfly,
they like you better framed and dried.”
-Butterfly, Tori Amos
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“Blow by blow, her mind cut in sheets
Layers deep, now unraveling.”
-Carbon, Tori Amos
Recommended by Shay.
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“Carbon - made only wants to be unmade.”
-Carbon, Tori Amos
Recommended by Shay.
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“i've been looking for a savior
in these dirty streets
looking for a savior
beneath these dirty sheets.”
-Crucify, Tori Amos
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“i hurt myself today
to see if i could feel
i hurt myself you said
to try to make him feel
so i hurt myself again
to see if he'd see me
i hurt myself again
i know he never could see me.”
-Hurt (introduction to Caught a Lite Sneeze), Tori Amos
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“you're only popular with anorexia
so i turn myself inside out
in hope someone will see.”
-Jackie's Strength, Tori Amos
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“look i'm standing naked before you
don't you want more than my sex
i can scream as loud as your last one
but i can't claim innocence.”
-Leather, Tori Amos
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“Give me life,
Give me pain,
Give me myself again.”
-Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos
Recommended by Jaine.
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“got a little red line
that tells you, boy
where the razor's been.”
-Never Seen Blue, Tori Amos
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“slaps you once in a while
and you live and love in pain.”
-Only Women Bleed, Tori Amos
Recommended by Tiffany.
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“But what if I'm a mermaid
In these jeans of his with her name still on it
Hey but I don't care
Cause sometimes I said sometimes I hear my voice and it's been
HERE silent all these years.”
-Silent All These Years, Tori Amos
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“She's afraid of a light in the dark.”
-Spark, Tori Amos
Recommended by Jaine.
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