Leafy Quotes

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The newest book quotes in the Leafy Quotes collection — passages readers have just added, each with its author, book and the page it came from.

  1. Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

  2. We live and die and anything else is just delusion.

  3. We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are...Or we can decide for ourselves.

  4. Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

  5. Language... was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world.

  6. Whether you cut it off

    or someone else cuts it off

    if you put your neck on the stone pillow

    believe it—you will turn to dust.

    p. 49

  7. Masochism is a valuable job skill.

  8. Loving someone is like having a mental illness that’s not covered by health insurance.

    p. 37

  9. Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

  10. 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.

  11. Each and every moment, our bodies are on a one-way journey to collapse and deterioration, unable to turn back the clock.

    p. 47

  12. Parenthood being the opiate of the masses.