“He’s the only man you really love. And the more he insults you, the more you love him. That’s your “laceration”. You love him precisely as he is, insulting you as he does. Were he to reform, you’d discard him immediately and stop loving him altogether.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Brothers Karamazov”
“It’s not what I want, it’s what I need. My life is no longer in the realm of want. I do what I have to do.”
- Don DeLillo, White Noise
(via the-book-diaries)
“That’s the thing about sensitive people. Things take time. Time to absorb other people’s feelings and time to restore their own sanity. Time to adjust to change and time to remain with their own values. Time to ask why things are the way they are and time to just simply let things be. A life of taking two steps forward and one step back is a powerful way to be.”— Juansen Dizon, Sensitive People
