Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight,
Because my conscience leaves me no other choice.
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war:
This way of settling difference is not just.
This business of burning human beings with napalm,
Filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows,
Of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane.

Of sending men home from the dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged,
Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

Bitter Quotations

I'm jealous of every girl who has ever hugged you,
Because for that one moment, she held my entire world.

Tears are like kisses,
The only real ones are the ones you can't hold back.

Never make someone your everything,
Because when they're gone you have nothing.

You will never know true pain
Until you look into the eyes of someone you love,
And they look away.

The scars are nothing
Compared to the pain that put them there.

Goodbye is only painful
When you know you can never say hello again.

How can you learn from your mistakes
When mistakes are all you've ever made?

What's the point in living
When the ones you love the most
Refuse to love you?

Break my heart and tell me lies,
Because eventually every heart dies.

They say to follow your heart,
But how can you when it's blinded by love?

And I wait...
For an endless song that never starts,
For a cure to the age-old broken heart.

As you grow up, you'll learn that even the one person
that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will.
You'll have your heart broken, probably more than once,
and it's harder every time.
You'll break hearts too,
so remember how it felt when yours was broken.
You'll fight with your best friend.
You'll blame a new love for things an old one did.
You'll cry because time is passing too fast,
and you'll eventually lose someone you love.
So take too many pictures, laugh too much,
and love like you've never been hurt.
Because every sixty seconds you spend upset
is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Real loss only occurs when
You lose something that you love more than yourself.

The only truly painful goodbyes are
The ones that are never said and never explained.

Just when you thought you had it all,
It all falls apart.

If you love someone, give them the option to leave,
But never give them a reason to.

It is not in the stars to hold our destinies,
But in ourselves.

Not everything that can be counted counts,
And not everything that counts can be counted.

After a while, you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul;
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning;
And company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts;
And presents aren't promises.
You begin to accept your defeats with your head up
and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult,
not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build all your roads on today,
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans.
After a while, you learn that even sunshine burns
if you get too much.
So plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you'll learn that you really are strong,
and you really do have worth.

They say to follow your heart.
But when your heart is in so many pieces,
Which way are you to follow?

Love, in all its forms,
is only a title for superficial feelings
that are connected to naught but instincts
and the human inferiority complex.
Despite how love is depicted in society, for the most part,
and other sources where love is displayed as a wonderful and splendid feeling,
it is nothing more than a temporary reaction.
Even with the many uses of the emotion love,
it can always be broken down into self-gratifying aspects.
More than anything else, love is only an obligatory concept shared between people,
in that it relies on the people involved
to manifest its existence as anything more than the word itself.
Outside of false displays and concepts
that follow the belief that love is,
the word only describes the connection made by the participants
who only want to further their personal gain in one way or another.

It's better to have never loved at all,
Than to have been in love and felt its fall.

If you had to chose between
Someone you love or someone who loves you,
Pick the person who loves you
Because you can learn to love someone
But you can't make someone love you back.

If you find love, set it free.
If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. 
If it doesn't come back, it was never meant to be.

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
and the world makes you king for a day,
just go to the mirror and look at yourself,
and see what that man has to say.
For it isn't your father or mother or wife,
whose judgment upon you must pass.
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
is the one staring back from the glass.
Some people may think you're awesome
and call you a wonderful guy.
But the man in the glass says you're only a bum
if you can't look him straight in the eye.
He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,
for he's with you up till the end,
and you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test
if the man in the glass is your friend.
You may fool the whole world down the pathway of life
and get pats on the back as you go.
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
if you've cheated the man in the glass.

A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep.

It's hard to pretend you love someone
if you really don't.
But it's harder to pretend you don't love someone
if you really do.

It's better to love someone you can't have,
Than to have someone you can't love.

How do I say goodbye to someone I never had?
Why do tears fall for someone who was never mine?
Why is it that I miss someone I was never with?
And I'll ask why I love someone whose love was never mine.

When you love, you must not expect anything in return,
for if you do you are not loving but investing.
If you love you must prefer to accept pain,
for if you expect happiness, you are not loving, but using.

Look not for beauty, nor for the color of skin,
but look for a heart that is loyal within.
For the beauty fades and the skin will grow old,
but a heart that is loyal, will never turn cold.

Never expect love to be always at its best,
because if you do, you'll never appreciate its existence.
Remember that there will always be one true love,
for you to have and to hold.
It may not be the one you expect,
but it's the one you deserve.

Sometimes we need to be hurt in order to grow.
We must fail in order to know.
We must lose in order to gain.
Some lessons are learned best through pain.

When winged shadows cross the land,
fear not the wrath of demon's hand.
Remember this when terror sings,
dragons fly on angels' wings.

When you love someone,
write his name in a circle, not a heart.
Because a heart can be broken,
but a circle is never ending.

When you love someone and you get hurt,
it's like a cut.
It will heal,
but there'll always be a scar.

Love starts with a smile,
grows with a kiss,
and ends with a tear.

Falling in love
Is when she falls asleep in your arms
And wakes up in your dreams.

What is better?
A lie that draws a smile,
or the truth that draws a tear?

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
But often we look so long at the closed door
That we do not see the one
Which has been opened for us.

Happiness is not the absence of conflict,
but the ability to cope with it.

Your presence embracing my being,
this feeling overwhelming my senses.
You occupy a space long thought to be vacant.
This must be what romance is.
Bitter, biting winter makes our cold hands clasp tighter,
but deep inside, your eyes make me warm,
and your lips spark the fire.
Your arms gather me up;
You just can't seem to get close enough,
so instead you wrap my soul around my essence;
And you close your eyes while our shadows love on the wall.

If you find someone you love,
hold on to them for as long as you can.
The love of your life only comes around
once in a lifetime.
If that someone doesn't know, then tell him,
because you never know when it'll be too late.
And if that someone you love doesn't love you back,
then it was never really love at all.
And if you think love will never find you,
Then you're wrong.
Love finds everyone.
Don't look for love,
because it will come to you when you least expect it.

The moment may be temporary;
But the memory is forever.

Quotes from the book "Skinny" by Ibi Kaslik

Here? In this waste of a place you call home?

Tell me, what does it feel like to almost die?

Almost, almost but not quite, you can function while starving.

Do you ever get hungry? Too hungry to eat?

Do you ever think about how your sickness affects your family?
Do you ever think about how your family affects your sickness?

He started the whole mess with those ice-blue eyes that kept me begging for my right to exist. Holly doesn't know what it's like to love someone who deosn't care whether you live or die. She doesn't yet realize that love unreturned eventually transforms into a fierce tangled mess, nerves and entrails exposed like split animal innards. She doesn't understand that sometimes the unrequited must demand reparations, that love can be a mean and spiteful process, that sometimes one loses patience with love. So, when the nerves and guts have seemingly been packed away, sewn in and cleaned up so as not to make all the innocent bystanders uncomfortable, the carrier of this love becomes heavy with a toxic lump that grows, slowly and steadily, into a fierce ball of scarred tissue.
Located two ribs below the heart, it is called hate.

Heart lesson #1: first meeting. Remember to keep breathing.

Heart lesson #2: incisions and loss.

How many ways can you say "self-destruction"?

Love me, love me more.

Injuries known as "crash injuries" are due to severe pressure.

You had your chance to love me, but you gave it up. Is it true? Or was it your only way?

Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival.
The heart is resilient, I mean literally.

Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

Why do you love people who never love you back?

Love fades, doesn't it?

Just remember, love is always betrayal for you.

The thing you were most careful with, you lost.

I want you to curse every time you stole a kiss from his cheek and thought you knew love.

You're a real piece of work, you know that?

Funny that.
What?
How all the men in your life leave you for Holly.

It is important to appreciate that the lessening of pain does not necessarily indicate the underlying condition has been resolved.

This is the part where everyone says "I love you" and pretends they mean it.

"So many people love you, Giselle, so why can't you, just a little?"

I thought you wanted out.
I did.

I see my two stars erupt like satellites and begin to fall. Slowly, they descend, sinking into the earth's burnt core. The nightmare of the inside turned out, the unraveling: exploding limbs, mangled flesh, cracked by the impact of bone on bone. When I look up, the sky is filled with bright blue heartsacs impaled by fire. When I look down, I see my organs torn form their holes.

This is what it's like...

A lion-heart bursting. Entropy in reverse. It allg ets messed up, the senses criss-crossed, a borderless synesthesia. A minimum of images: I see her voice, a light on the wall, then shouts churn up into one colossal, unified skipping heartbeat, tiny explosions heard from outer space.

...to die.

And I don't know anything except that -
I am not in love with anyone anymore.

I'm too fast, too bloody. I'm on my second wind now.