"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."

Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

"If you say you can’t stand being depressed, he will say you actually court it. If you say you hate being humiliated, he will say you secretly love it. If you are passionately involved in a religious, political, or ideological crusade to convert others to your beliefs, he will suggest that you don’t really believe in them at all, that your crusading is merely an attempt to convert your own disbelieving self."

No Boundary (Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth) by Ken Wilber


"Loneliness isn’t being alone, it’s when someone loves you and you don’t have it in you to love them back."

Xiu Xiu-Wig Master

"When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

Arundhati Roy  (via triciaontheradio)

"A magician came to entertain us, and I was mesmerized by his beautiful hands, his fluid, round gestures. I couldn’t stop watching his hands. They were better than any of his tricks. He pulled a bouquet of paper flowers out of the air and gave them to me with a courtly bow, and I thought love was like that, pulled out of the air, something bright and unlikely."

Janet Fitch (White Oleander)