Quotes By Letter: G

“Daisy: You're just jealous, Lisa... because I got better... because I was released... because I have a chance... at a life.

Lisa: They didn't release you 'cause you're better, Daisy, they just gave up. You call this a life, hmm? Taking Daddy's money, buying your dollies and your knick-knacks... and eatin' his fuckin' chicken, fattening up like a prize fuckin' heifer? You changed the scenery, but not the fucking situation - and the warden makes house calls. And everybody knows. Everybody knows. That he fucks you. What they don't know... is that you like it. Hmm? You like it.”

-Girl, Interrupted [movie]

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“Maybe everyone out there is a liar. And maybe the whole world is stupid, and ignorant. But I'd rather be in it. I'd rather be fucking in it, than down here with you.”

-Girl, Interrupted [movie]

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“Tell me that you don't take that blade and drag it across your skin, and pray for the courage to press down.”

-Girl, Interrupted [movie]

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“When you don't want to feel, death can seem like a dream. But seeing death, really seeing it, makes dreaming about it fucking ridiculous.”

-Girl, Interrupted [movie]

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“He takes her in his arms
He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you
But he thinks
this is a lie, so he says in the end
You're dead, nothing can hurt you
which seems to him
a more promising beginning, more true.”

-A Myth Of Devotion, Louise Glück

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“broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lip gloss and rain on the streets.”

-The Torn Skirt, Rebecca Godfrey

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“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“This is thy world! a world! alas!
And dost thou ask why heaves thy heart.”

-Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Who am I? Who are you? That is to say, 'Who are you really?' Do you know? Does anyone know? The restraints of this society make us put up so many walls of bullshit and facades to hide who we are that it is almost impossible to tell who anyone really is. We dig ourselves into a comfortable hole to hide away from the eyes of our peers, and it's in this hole that we bury ourselves. Dig yourselves out. Claw your way back into the light of day. Let your true self breathe, and in doing that, live.”

-Half Life, Patrick Goins

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“Life, like some grand mosaic slowly loses hold over time, and the fragile strands that connect the many different parts unravels. The universe is a mirror, fragile and reflective, and we all stand in awe of our own human vanity. Fools see the universe as linear, absolute, all knowing. The wise see the universe as chaotic, unknown, fragile. Only on the verge of infinity can one see the fall apart universe. Sadness is knowing that we all stand upon a universe with a cracked glass bottom, and in an instant we may all sink into oblivion. Everything falls apart. Empires rise and crumble as tin soldiers hold plastic banners of righteous intent, all soaked with the blood of innocents. Hands raise and fall to the deafening sound of a million questions all unanswered. Love is just another unfelt emotion, talked about but never seen in full bloom. Love is only rumor and hearsay in the fall apart universe. Eventually we all must stand upon the jagged glass of the broken boundaries and broken promises. We must all suffer the soul bleeding that follows as the tattered splinters dig deep.”

-The Fall Apart Universe, Patrick Goins

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“Life is pain. Anyone who tells you something different is selling something.”

-The Princess Bride, William Goldman

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“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”

-Gone With The Wind [movie]

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“And I wonder where these dreams go
When the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming?
No one's listening anyway.”

-Acoustic #3, Goo Goo Dolls

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“You bleed just to know you're alive.”

-Iris, Goo Goo Dolls

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“Scars are souvenirs you never knew.”

-Name, Goo Goo Dolls

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“Stranger than your sympathy
I take these things so I don't feel
I'm killing myself from the inside out
Now my head's been filled with doubt.”

-Sympathy, Goo Goo Dolls

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“I know a girl with cuts on her legs
I think that she hates the way she was made.”

-Night and Day, The Good Life

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“Very few of us get to participate in the creation of our culture these days. Mostly culture is something you rent at the video store, and that's a crime. Given half a chance, people would astonish each other with their capacities to imagine and create.”

-Collateral Damage, Rebecca Gordon

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“I tell people it's like being dead. It feels like being a ghost, maybe. You float through your days feeling insubstantial, cut off from warmth, light and all feeling. Sometimes it feels like you're in a coffin buried alive. You're screaming inside your head, but no one can hear you.”

-Deborah Gray

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“I felt like a spy. The camera had caught them in the middle of a smile, in the middle of the day, in the middle of their lives. They were looking into the lens for each other and themselves. Could they have imagined that a girl like me, hungry and feverish, would drink in the details of their privacy, so many years after they were gone? I knew how it had ended for them. but I wanted not to know because they didn't know it themselves. It made the pictures so sad. I felt like some dwarfed and fallen god who could create nothing and change nothing, but could predict their fate with cruel certainty. I could point to each of them and say, You will die of consumption in your twenty-ninth year. You will marry a man you do not love and never have children. You will drink yourself insane. You will live well into your nineties and neither of your daughters will forgive you -- you will die alone. The sorrows that were set to happen to them had already happened. I knew what was coming, and like a train wreck that couldn't be stopped, I wanted to cover my eyes so I wouldn't see the smoke and the burning.”

-Color is the Suffering of Light, Melissa Green

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“...and Lactamaeon, second in command of Yr, whispered If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy. And therefore, Unbeautiful...”

-I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Joanne Greenberg

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“And suddenly Deborah knew what was good about the D ward: no more lying gentility or need to live according to the incomprehensible rules of Earth. When the blindness came, or the hard knots of pain from the nonexistent tumor, or the Pit, no one would say. 'What will people think!' 'Be ladylike,' or 'Don't make a fuss!'”

-I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Joanne Greenberg

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“Everybody is so afraid of getting blood on the living room floor. 'I can't stand to see suffering,' they say, 'so go die outside!'”

-I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Joanne Greenberg

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“The awful truth began to dawn on Deborah that Carla had become her friend, that she liked Carla, and that the scarred befriending part of her still had the power to feel.”

-I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Joanne Greenberg

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“I made love to her in those days savagely as though I hated her, but what I hated was the future. Loneliness lay in my bed and I took loneliness into my arms at night. She didn't change; she cooked for me, she made my pipes, she gently and sweetly laid out her body for my pleasure (but it was no longer a pleasure), and just as in those early days I wanted her mind, now I wanted to read her thoughts, but they were hidden away in a language I couldn't speak.”

-The Quiet American, Graham Greene

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