Bestie Quotes

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Besties before testes.
Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give)
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
Cornel West (Cornel West Reader (Basic Civitas Book))
You loved me. We were besties. I lend you my eye shadow. But someday all you'll be is someone I used to know. - Punk
Penelope Douglas (Punk 57)
We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.
Shannon Celebi
Jace shot finger guns at Julie Beauvale, who had turned bright pink. “Good to see you, bestie,” he said. Simon’s shoulders were shaking. Isabelle, who had been watching with a half smile, patted his back. Clary scrunched her nose at Jace.
Cassandra Clare (Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices, #3))
Besties before testes...
Gena Showalter
I may not want to see you porking my bestie in a live sex show, but feel free to walk round with that spank-bank-worthy tush-tush out on display… just don’t bend over, ‘cos then you’re fair game!
Tillie Cole (Eternally North (Eternally North, #1))
I’ll take a boozy brunch with my bestie and a dirty book in bed by eight for a thousand, Alex.
Elsie Silver (Heartless (Chestnut Springs, #2))
Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin
J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3))
Still I considered the M16 my bestest of besties. Always by my side, even at night, burrowed into my sleeping bag with me, faithful and true. In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun. Shhh, Cassie. It's close. Close
Rick Yancey (The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1))
I know that you know that I'm awesome, and that you know that I know that you're awesome!
Shreya Gunna
THIS IS JUST A NORMAL day for you, isn’t it?” Keefe asked as they shivered outside the Sanctuary gates, waiting for Councillor Terik to meet them. “Go to school, find out you’re covered in a dangerous substance, melt off a few layers of skin, and then hail your besty the Councillor, tell him you’re ditching study hall to save the world, and he says, ‘Cool, I’ll come with you!
Shannon Messenger (Everblaze (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #3))
I stared at him in amazement. "You faced down a dragon. You made him back off." Blitzen shrugged. "I don't like bullies." He pointed at my legs. "We might need to get you some new clothes, kid. Dark khakis would go with that shirt. Or grey denim." I understood why he wanted to change the subject. He didn't want to talk about how brave he'd been. He didn't see his actions as praiseworthy. It was simply a fact; you didn't mess with Blitzen's bestie.
Rick Riordan (Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead (Book 3))
Ogni uomo ha le sue bestie che se ne stanno in agguato al buio, e le sue maschere per nasconderle. E scatenarle fuori di sé nel mondo non è una via per liberarsene. Quindi sì, vivrò ancora con loro, per tutto il tempo che mi resta da vivere. Ma, se potrò impedirlo, non saranno più loro a guidarmi la mano.
Luca Tarenzi (Il sentiero di legno e sangue)
The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.
B.C. Forbes
non era rassegnazione cosciente, ma il torpore opaco delle bestie domate con le percosse, a cui non dolgono più le percosse.
Primo Levi
Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn
Tara Michener (No Longer Besties: And Other Assorted Teenage Drama)
Non c'è niente che sappia di morte, - continuò, - più del sole d'estate, della gran luce, della natura esuberante. Tu fiuti l'aria e senti il bosco, e ti accorgi che piante e bestie se ne infischiano di te. Tutto vive e si macera in se stesso. La natura è la morte...
Cesare Pavese (The Moon and the Bonfire)
We all of us carry the seed of evil in our hearts and souls,” she told him. “Even the purest, even the most holy. It is part of the human condition, born into us. We cannot root it out. All we can do—at best—is prevent it from germinating.
David Gemmell (The Swords of Night and Day (Drenai Tales, #11) (The Damned, #2))
High school Simon was big man on campus. He’d had his own posse of what I called the apostles (his old pals Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), headed by his old bestie, Trevor.
Alice Clayton (Last Call (Cocktail, #4.5))
DID THE GREAT Dr. Oliver Addison, veterinarian sex god, work a miracle and restore my geriatric bestie to perfect canine health?
Katherine Center (Hello Stranger)
Your bestie, Amy PS—Why haven’t you poisoned his breakfast yet? –
Whitney G. (Naughty Boss (Steamy Coffee Collection, #1))
STEPHEN MILLER The ideological zampolit of the Trump administration, Stephen Miller is brilliant, dangerous, and also needs to spend a week getting laid. My God, does it show. All that pent-up fury at Mexicans and Muslims is a bad look on anyone. One-time college besties with pudgy racist thought leader Richard Spencer, Miller is the thinking man’s racist on Team Trump.
Rick Wilson (Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever)
Friendship is not something that you seek but something that finds you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Friendship: A Satirical Essay)
Taken from the dedication in my debut novel Exactly 23 days. To honour all women on International Women's day. For women everywhere: When you know you are finally mended, spread the word, hold out your hand, share some love from your heart and some laughter from your soul and be there for a new member of the sisterhood who needs your help. Let's all help our sisters worldwide to stand tall and know, they can and they will recover, survive and thrive, to live the life they deserve. To all the sisters who reached out and held my hand in whatever way you could, who cried my tears with me, and laughter my laughter too, I thank every one of you. I survived.
Jayne Higgins (Exactly 23 Days)
If she was friends with them on Twitter that was equal to being besties in real life.
Lucy Sykes (The Knockoff)
Talk to yourself the way you'd talk to someone you love. Shush your inner bully. Be your own bestie.
Karen Salmansohn
Nothing like knowing your bestie was all hooked up with some hottie. 
Jaymin Eve (Ash (Hive Trilogy, #1))
Più conosco gli uomini, più amo le bestie
Totò
Omul e doar o funie, întinsă între bestie şi Supraom — o funie peste un abis
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
It's my birth right to dance madly on my bestie marriage, after a bottle or so..!!
Akansh Malik
Best fabulous flamingo friends forever.
Aisha Cat
Girl, if that’s the way you react to pizza, then we were destined to be besties.
Chandelle LaVaun (The Cursed Witch (The Coven: Fae Magic, #1))
She's dating the school quarterback." "People date all the time. And they break up all the time." "Not these two," Meredith said with a snort. "Their love is epic. Everyone at school knows it. He gave up his philandering ways to be with his longtime childhood bestie." I finally glanced at her sideways. "They're in high school. High schoolers don't philander." "Jack Caputo does. Or did.
Brodi Ashton (Neverfall (Everneath, #1.5))
Forse è vero, come sosteneva mia madre, che ognuno di noi ha una quota prediletta in montagna, un paesaggio che gli somiglia e dove si sente bene. La sua era senz'altro il bosco dei 1500 metri, quello di abeti e larici, alla cui ombra crescono il mirtillo, il ginepro e il rododendro, e si nascondono i caprioli. Io ero più attratto dalla montagna che viene dopo: prateria alpina, torrenti, torbiere, erbe d'alta quota, bestie al pascolo. Ancora più in alto la vegetazione scompare, la neve copre ogni cosa fino all'inizio dell'estate e il colore prevalente è il grigio della roccia, venato dal quarzo e intarsiato dal giallo dei licheni. Lì cominciava il mondo di mio padre. Dopo tre ore di cammino i prati e i boschi lasciavano il posto alle pietraie, ai laghetti nascosti nelle conche glaciali, ai canaloni solcati dalle slavine, alle sorgenti di acqua gelida. La montagna si trasformava in un luogo più aspro, inospitale e puro: lassù lui diventava felice. Ringiovaniva, forse, tornando ad altre montagne e altri tempi. Anche il suo passo sembrava perdere peso e ritrovare un'agilità perduta.
Paolo Cognetti (Le otto montagne)
Sai la favola del pipistrello? Gli uccelli e le bestie erano in guerra. Quando stavano vincendo gli uccelli, il pipistrello diceva di essere un uccello, perché sapeva volare. Quando vincevano le bestie, il pipistrello diceva di essere una bestia, perché aveva i denti. Per questo il pipistrello non si fa vedere di giorno. Nessuno vuole guardare le sue due facce. (Pag. 614, "Il falò delle vanità")
Tom Wolfe (The Bonfire of the Vanities)
She fished inside and brought out two movie choices. “This evening’s distraction. Do you want to watch pretty people fall in love or things blowing up?” I eyed them both. “Do you have anything with pretty people blowing up?” I asked, and Charlotte threw a pillow at me. This right here? This is why I have a bestie.
Bernie Su (The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet (Lizzie Bennet Diaries))
The Woman then takes Aislyn's hand and pumps it, too virogously. "Yes. Pleasedtomeetyou is appropriate, yes? We're both composite entites for whom the boundaries of space, time, and flesh have meaning! Let's be besties.
N.K. Jemisin (The City We Became (Great Cities, #1))
Still, I considered the M16 my bestest of besties. Always by my side, even at night, burrowed into my sleeping bag with me, faithful and true. In the 4th Wave, you can’t trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun.
Rick Yancey (The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1))
I’ve been hugged a lot. More than I like, actually. It seems to be a thing now. Females—complete strangers—come in for hugs as a greeting. Acquaintances embrace. People you run into on the street dive in all the fucking time like we’re all oh-so-close besties, even though they’re barely touching you. I hate the fake affection. But this is different. He’s holding onto me. Like, if he doesn’t, I might fall.
Penelope Douglas (Credence)
This is no CCJ novel… It was more of her wayward bestie’s. I’d seen her name mentioned with Christina’s and decided to give her a try. Never again! She wrote murky romances that took too many turns and left me exhausted after reading too many installments of a single series. 
Love Belvin (The Right of Love (Wayward Love #3))
They clapped palms and John dragged the other male off the snow with his good arm. Then they walked off into the night, side by side. It was almost, John reflected, as if they’d done this before— Murhder started to whistle a cheery little tune, and John had to do a double take. After a silent laugh, John joined in, finding a perfect harmony: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” When Murhder started doing a hop’ita-skip’ita every third step, John Fred Astaire’d, too. Just two vampires, looking for the undead, ready to enjoy some good old-fashioned bloodshed. Besties.
J.R. Ward (The Savior (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #17))
This is just a normal day for you, isn't it?" Keefe asked... "Go to school, find out you're covered in a dangerous substance, melt off a few layers of skin, and then hail your bestie the Councillor, tell him you're ditching study hall to save the world, and he says, 'Cool, I'll come with you!
Shannon Messenger (Everblaze (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #3))
Și ca și-acel ce nu mai vrea ce-a vrut, schimbând prin noul gând pe cele-avute, așa că lasă totul ce-a-nceput, așa și eu sub poala coastei mute gândind îmi mistuii întreaga vrere ce-ntâi, spre-a-ncepe, atât mi-a fost de iute. -De-ți prind din vorbe bine-a ta durere- răspunse umbra cea mărinimoasă- ți-e sufletul curpins de-acea scădere, ce-abate-ades de ținta sa frumoasă pe om, astfel (oprind) ca năzărirea nălucii lui pe-o bestie fricoasă.
Dante Alighieri (Inferno)
Che altro se non tempo, fertilità del suolo, morìa di bestie, malattie - volevo strappare la gente al circolo dentro cui era inserita? Dentro cui stava bene, non cercava nient'altro? Al che io, scattando: perché non conosce niente altro. Perché c'è qualcuno che lascia alla gente solo questa specie di domande.
Christa Wolf (Cassandra)
Here's how it went down: Me standing by Sadie and her mom’s bestie, Taylor Rae Mayfield, the actress. Super cool. Talented. And always at Friday nights, so like family too. They were discussing how ridiculous it is that we feed cats grain-based food when they're pure carnivores, as if you'd ever feed a cheetah sliced bread.
Nicole Schubert (Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land)
Sentirsi solo è un piacere che spaventa.
Federigo Tozzi (Bestie. Prose interpretate da Fernando Marchiori)
You can be a friend to someone who is to you not a friend.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Friendship: A Satirical Essay)
Think not to make me afraid, for I fear nothing in the universe but that which I love the best.--I spake of the eyes of the Lord Jesus.--Then
George MacDonald (The Complete Works of George MacDonald)
And trust me, you could get into business with your bestest-bestie-best-BFFL-friend ever, and something will undoubtedly happen. The short version: get it in writing.
Jason SurfrApp (Creativity For Sale: How I Made $1,000,000 Wearing T-Shirts and How You Can Turn Your Passion Into Profit, Too)
My bestie is awesomely paranoid like that.
S.T. Abby (All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4))
Don Chisciotte e Sancio tornarono alle loro bestie, e alle bestie che erano, e questa fu la fine dell’avventura della barca incantata.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)
I wonder how he’d feel about the offer of a friendship hand job? Is that a thing? How about a bestie blowie? Platonic anal?
K.M. Neuhold (Drilled (Four Bears Construction #7))
You loved me, we were besties, I lent you my eye shadow. But someday all you’ll be is someone I used to know. -Punk
Penelope Douglas (Punk 57)
Dudes and sex were great and all, but if you’d never had a ride-or-die bestie, you were missing out on a connection that couldn’t be replicated.
Jaymin Eve (Rejected (Shadow Beast Shifters, #1))
Because as soon as Zach’s girls saw the logo and identified me as a fellow Swiftie, we were instant besties.
Elodie Hart (Undulate (Alchemy, #2))
There is an old Italian saying: “Il lavoro nobilita I’uomo, e lo rende simile alle bestie”; or, “Work gives man nobility, and turns him into an animal.
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience)
That’s the thing about slippery slopes. Take that first step, and the next thing you know, you’ve completed a jerk-off hat trick to your bestie.
Lauren Blakely (Big Rock (Big Rock, #1))
Take that first step, and the next thing you know, you’ve completed a jerk-off hat trick to your bestie. But
Lauren Blakely (Big Rock (Big Rock, #1))
There would be benefits to finally having a gay bestie. Think of the pointers and insight he could provide on blowjob techniques alone.
Genna Rulon (Only for You (For You, #1))
The aim of theater—Aristotle said it first, and Aristotle said it best—is to arouse profound emotion in the spectator and through this arousal to effect a catharsis of the soul. If there’s
Joyce Carol Oates (Blonde)
Le storie che si scriveranno, i quadri che dipingeranno, le musiche che si comporranno, le stolte pazze e incomprensibili cose che tu dici, saranno pur sempre la punta massima dell'uomo, la sua autentica bandiera [...] quelle idiozie che tu dici saranno ancora la cosa che più ci distingue dalle bestie, non importa se supremamente inutili, forse anzi proprio per questo. Più ancora dell'atomica, dello sputnik, dei razzi intersiderali. E il giorno in cui quelle idiozie non si faranno più, gli uomini saranno diventati dei nudi miserabili vermi come ai tempi delle caverne.
Dino Buzzati (Le K)
No, Mo," Miss Watkins said, turning to Nesta who was crying with laughter. "Nesta Williams, seeing as you clearly find it so funny. What do you think the name of God might be?" "Er, not sure," said Nesta, looking caught out. "What do you think?" "I don't think," said Miss Watkins."I know." "I don't think I know either," giggled Nesta. The whole class got detention, but it was worth it. I felt like i'd spent the whole morning laughing my head off We never did get to know what God's name was.
Cathy Hopkins
Definition of bestie: person who loves nothing more than to watch you make a complete fool of yourself and then remind you of it at every opportunity for the rest of your life what a fool you made of yourself.
Kay Springsteen (The 12 Step Program (Book #1))
Another word I’ve added to “the list” is “conversation,” as in “We need to have a national conversation about_________.” This is employed by the left to mean “You need to listen to me use the word ‘diversity’ for an hour.” The right employs obnoxious terms as well—“libtard,” “snowflake,” etc.—but because they can be applied to me personally it seems babyish to ban them. I’ve outlawed “meds,” “bestie,” “bucket list,” “dysfunctional,” “expat,” “cab-sav,” and the verb “do” when used in a restaurant, as in “I’ll do the snails on cinnamon toast.” “Ugh,” Ronnie agrees. “Do!—that’s the worst.” “My new thing,” I told her, “is to look at the menu and say, ‘I’d like to purchase the veal chop.’” A lot of our outlawed terms were invented by black people and then picked up by whites, who held on to them way past their expiration date. “My bad,” for example, and “I’ve got your back” and “You go, girlfriend.” They’re the verbal equivalents of sitcom grandmothers high-fiving one another, and on hearing them, I wince and feel ashamed of my entire race.
David Sedaris (Calypso)
Why are you bringing these things up?" I asked softly. [...] Serena still wore that cold smile...Then, without warning, her face fell and she sighed heavily. "I'm saying all these things, Amelia, because you're my bestie." Serena's tone was sincere, but it made me scowl at her. The last time she'd called me "bestie," she'd shoved me over the guardrail of a suspension bridge. That kind of thing could really take the shine out of a word.
Tara Hudson (Elegy (Hereafter #3))
They’d been high school besties who’d dropped off the map when Mia went to college across the country in Seattle, and Sky stayed at home going to culinary school instead. Tale as old as the stale crackers in the back of her pantry.
Katherine McIntyre (Confined Desires (Rehoboth Pact #1))
Nel bosco c'è un uccello, il suo canto vi ferma e vi fa arrossire. C'è un orologio che non suona. C'è un burrone con un nido di bestie bianche. C'è una cattedrale che scende e un lago che sale. C'è una carrozzina abbandonata nel bosco ceduo, o che scende per il sentiero di corsa, infiocchettata. C'è una compagnia di piccoli commedianti in costume, intravisti sulla strada attraverso il margine del bosco. C'è infine, quando si ha fame e sete, qualcuno che ti scaccia.
Arthur Rimbaud
Eve was happy for her bestie. She just wished she had a guy who would look at her the way Seth looked at her friend, eyes all starry. No, that wasn't it. Or it wasn't completely it. Eve knew there were guys at school who liked her and would give her the Seth-look if she gave them the opportunity. But she didn't want the look from any of those guys. She wanted the look she could give the look back to. She wanted to find a guy she could all-out love who would all-out love her back.
Amy Meredith (Fever (Dark Touch, #3))
Belle Robinson, you have a problem. I’d ask your boyfriend and his bestie, Chiamaka, what they were doing this summer. Hint, it involves no clothes and a lot of heavy petting. Looks like Chi might have someone to take to the Snowflake Ball after
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Ace of Spades)
Come già tante volte lo prendeva una viva compassione per quelle bestie e una triste indignazione contro gli uomini; perchè questi erano così ottusi e rozzi e inconcepibilmente stolti e miopi, perchè tutti quanti non vedevano nulla, nè i pescatori nè le pescivendole nè i compratori che tiravano sul prezzo; perchè non vedevano quelle bocche, quegli occhi spaventati a morte e quelle code che si dibattevano violentemente, non vedevano quella tremenda lotta disperata e vana, quell'insopportabile trasformazione dei misteriosi animali così meravigliosamente belli, che rabbrividivano nell'ultimo lieve tremito sulla pelle morente e poi giacevano morti e spenti, lunghi e tirati, miseri pezzi di carne per la tavola del ghiottone soddisfatto?
Hermann Hesse
He’ll never get out of there,” V sneered, his icy eyes flaring with pure violence. “Not alive, at any rate.” “Good thing you have more than one table.” Butch clapped his bestie on the shoulder. “You sick fuck.” “Don’t knock it till you tried it.” “Nah, I’m a good Catholic boy. I go that route and my body would incinerate on the spot—and not from hot wax.” “Pansy.” “Pervert.” The pair of them chuckled at their inside joke and then got serious again—because with a squeak of the brakes, the ambulance stopped.
J.R. Ward (The Beast (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #14))
You are not a hot mess or hopeless cause just because you're scared or out of sorts. We cannot hang up on the call for courage that speed dials us every day. If facing the simultaneous brokenness and possibility of living were easy, we wouldn't need therapists, besties, teachers, scientists, coaches, healers, artists, and comedians nudging us to critically think, take agency, be more self-compassionate, see our humanity, and stop taking ourselves and our so-called "failures" so seriously. "Failure" is how we learn and grow. Community and solidarity are how we heal.
Kristen Lee
When it's only Monday and my bestie is already having a horrible week, I start hunting for memes to send him so that in amongst all the pain and misery he can get really annoyed that his whatsapp is going every two minutes with pointless pictures taking up all of the space on his phone.
C.S. Woolley
But I had learned long ago that you actually probably don't want to know what kind of guy your besties think you ought to be with. It always says as much about what they think of you as what they think of him, and I find a certain comfort in being ignorant of what my pals might envision for me.
Stacey Ballis (Off the Menu)
But I had learned long ago that you actually probably don't want to know what kind of guy your besties think you ought to be with. It always says more as much about what they thing of you as what they think of him, and I find a certain comfort in being ignorant of what my pals might envision for me.
Stacey Ballis
Our friends are siblings we discover, while our siblings are friends gifted to us by fate.
John Joclebs Bassey (Night of a Thousand Thoughts)
Su muerte no entraba en sus planes.[...] Que ardiera el mundo en su lugar.
Susanna Herrero (Donde el silencio se rompe (BestiesBooks) (Spanish Edition))
Taking responsibility doesn't mean you have to go it alone.
Kayla Miller (Besties: Work It Out (World of Click #1))
Sunniva Dee, my author bestie, you truly are an amazing friend. Thank you for all your insight for my first adventure into the world of erotic romance, and also for demanding I drop every other book I was working on to focus on this one first. I’m not sure Jensen would have ever gotten the chance to tell his story if you weren’t so pushy! And I love you for it!
Cheryl McIntyre (Hard)
Friends will always matter to you, but the ones who’ll really stay the course, and still be your besties in your 50s, are the two or three who make you laugh and love you as you are. Please don’t waste time befriending people who play games or with whom you need to walk on eggshells. And don’t bother with those you feel you need to impress. Life isn’t that long.
Joanna Cannon (Three Things I’d Tell My Younger Self)
MOTHER! The holiest body on earth without which even god's existence seems next to impossible. A woman whose sufferings cannot be conveyed . A women whose love cannot be measured. The one who loves you unconditionally and protects you beyond her limits. Yes, she's the real hero, a true warrior. Who can win millions of hearts just by her tender touch. She's my bestie.
Sarvani Rajdeep
Me ne duole, perché dovrò tradurre il suo italiano incerto e il suo discorso piano di buon soldato nel mio linguaggio di uomo incredulo. Ma questo ne era il senso, non dimenticato allora né poi: che appunto perché il Lager è una gran macchina per ridurci a bestie, noi bestie non dobbiamo diventare; che anche in questo luogo si può sopravvivere, e perciò si deve voler sopravvivere, per raccontare, per portare testimonianza; e che per vivere è importante sforzarci di salvare almeno lo scheletro, l'impalcatura, la forma della civiltà. Che siamo schiavi, privi di ogni diritto, esposti a ogni offesa, votati a morte quasi certa, ma che una facoltà ci è rimasta, e dobbiamo difenderla con ogni vigore perché è l'ultima: la facoltà di negare il nostro consenso. Dobbiamo quindi, certamente, lavarci la faccia senza sapone, nell'acqua sporca, e asciugarci nella giacca. Dobbiamo dare il nero alle scarpe, non perché cosi prescrive il regolamento, ma per dignità e per proprietà. Dobbiamo camminare diritti, senza strascicare gli zoccoli, non già in omaggio alla disciplina prussiana, ma per restare vivi, per non cominciare a morire.
Primo Levi (Survival in Auschwitz)
E sappi che tutte le storie sono delle belle storie. Che siano tristi o divertenti, felici o fastidiose, meravigliose o noiose, sconvolgenti o drammatiche. Tutte le storie sono magnifiche a modo loro. Non sempre si concludono con un sorriso, talvolta danno delle lezioni, delle lezioni di vita. Certe fanno piangere, altre fanno ridere. Ma il risultato dopo tutte queste emozioni è lo stesso: si amano queste storie per il loro contenuto, qualunque sia la fine. Allora, lasciami dire che mi spiace tantissimo che la nostra si concluda con le lacrime, avrei preferito un finale hollywoodiano, in cui saresti venuto a bussare alla mia porta, in cui ti sarei saltato tra le braccia e avremmo scopato come delle bestie nell’ingresso di casa mia. Sì, avrei amato quel finale…
Amheliie (Road)
It was the Age of Anything-Can-Happen, he reminded himself. He had heard many people say that on TV and on the outré video clips floating in cyberspace, which added a further, new-technology depth to his addiction. There were no rules any more. And in the Age of Anything-Can-Happen, well, anything could happen. Old friends could become new enemies and traditional enemies could be your new besties or even lovers. It was no longer possible to predict the weather, or the likelihood of war, or the outcome of elections. A woman might fall in love with a piglet, or a man start living with an owl. A beauty might fall asleep and, when kissed, wake up speaking a different language and in that new language reveal a completely altered character. A flood might drown your city. A tornado might carry your house to a faraway land where, upon landing, it would squash a witch. Criminals could become kings and kings be unmasked as criminals. A man might discover that the woman he lived with was his father’s illegitimate child. A whole nation might jump off a cliff like swarming lemmings. Men who played presidents on TV could become presidents. The water might run out. A woman might bear a baby who was found to be a revenant god. Words could lose their meanings and acquire new ones. The world might end, as at least one prominent scientist- entrepreneur had begun repeatedly to predict. An evil scent would hang over the ending. And a TV star might miraculously return the love of a foolish old coot, giving him an unlikely romantic triumph which would redeem a long, small life, bestowing upon it, at the last, the radiance of majesty.
Salman Rushdie (Quichotte)
Viaggiare, è proprio utile, fa lavorare l'immaginazione. Tutto il resto è delusione e fatica. Il viaggio che ci è dato è interamente immaginario. Ecco la sua forza. Va dalla vita alla morte. Uomini, bestie, città e cose, è tutto inventato. E' un romanzo, nient'altro che una storia fittizia. Lo dice Littrè, lui non sbaglia mai. E poi in ogni caso, tutti possono fare altrettanto. Basta chiudere gli occhi. E' dall'altra parte della vita.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Journey to the End of the Night)
She sniffs and shakes off her tears, then turns to me with an eager look. “So what’s the deal with him? How did you meet? You just tricked me to the worst snot-fest in the history of me. I demand this as repayment.” She has a point. I fiddle with my phone. “It started out as a wrong number, actually. Like you know those Buzzfeed articles where people text the wrong number while going into labor and then these randos show up with diapers and baby formula and they become besties?” “No, but I’ll take your word that it happened.” “Yeah, so, it’s kind of like that. He just texted the wrong number—I think he was looking for my dad because I inherited his phone. But then we just…I don’t know, we just kept talking and—” “So you legit don’t know him,” she interrupts. “I do know him.” “Have you talked, though?” I hold up my brick phone. “How do you think we’re communicating? Smoke signals?” She waves away my sarcasm. “No, I mean actually talked. Like,” she holds her hand up like a phone, “here’s my number, call me maybe talked.” I squirm. “Not exactly.” Sage rolls her eyes. “Elle! He could be a sixty-year-old with a collection of American Girl Dolls in his basement for all you know.” “He isn’t!” I cry. “He’s our age. And besides, I like texting him. It feels more, I don’t know, You’ve Got Mail-y.
Ashley Poston (Geekerella (Once Upon a Con, #1))
What’s it all about, Alfie?” Its lyrics are not particularly profound, but the question has stayed with me. What’s it all about? What’s life all about? What’s Christianity all about? What’s salvation all about? My answer to that question now, my conviction now: “it”—Christianity and salvation—is about transformation this side of death. The natural effect of growing up, beginning in childhood, is that we fall into bondage to cultural messages and conventions; experience separation and exile from the one in whom we live and move and have our being; become blinded by habituated ways of seeing and live in the dark, even dead in the midst of life; and hunger and thirst for something more. Salvation is about liberation, reconnection, seeing anew, acceptance, and the satisfaction of our deepest yearnings. Christianity at its best—like all of the enduring religions of the world at their best—is a path of transformation.
Marcus J. Borg (Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most)
Non amava né il giardino né la villa. Era arduo sopportare la presenza del suocero. Era il più "presente" degli esseri. Se anche tentava di infiammare l'immaginazione ripetendo: «Questa casa un giorno sarà mia», non riusciva a entusiasmarsi. «Sì, è bel tempo, pensava con distacco, la villa ha dello stile... le rose... Simone... sì... Ma tutto ciò cosa giova a me, alla mia più intima natura?... Del resto, quando per un'ora vedo lo stesso orizzonte penso alla morte. Il disgusto tipico di ogni uomo che non si accontenta di vivere, che talvolta pensa alla propria vita... Sono stanco del successo, sono stanco dei processi brillanti, degli affari fortunati o sfortunati, delle relazioni utili, stanco anche troppo della presidenza del collegio forense. Soprattutto, pensava, sono stanco del matrimonio, e si ricordava dell'inverno passato, che si riaffacciava alla memoria come un lungo e cupo stato di collera, interrotto da schiarite di appassionata concordia, sempre più rare queste ultime, sempre più frequenti i diverbi... Perché?... Ah! certi matrimoni, certe donne erano così... Certe unioni sembrano generare nell'anima un dolore sordo, proprio come quello del basto che percuote il fianco delle bestie appaiate... Sospirò: «Non chiedo grandi cose, eppure... Che mi lasci partire per due mesi, è tutto ciò che desidero. Quando tornerò sarò dolce come un agnello... Ero forse fatto per il matrimonio? Per non importa quale matrimonio? No, sono ingiusto... Questo non è un matrimonio qualunque... L'ho amata... Lei m'ispira ancora una specie di nervoso affetto... La disgrazia è che si comincia ad amare una persona con tutto ciò che l'attornia... (quando l'ho amata tutto ciò che mi faceva pensare a lei mi era caro: la città in cui l'ho conosciuta; l'italiano che parlavano attorno a me...). Quando si finisce di amare, ci si slega anche da tutto. Così, questa villa, suo padre, perfino la bambina e questo cielo, tutto mi sfinisce e mi irrita...».
Irène Némirovsky (Un amore in pericolo)
We all lie. We all guard secrets—sometimes terrible ones—a side to us so dark, so shameful, that we quickly avert our own eyes from the shadow we might glimpse in the mirror. Instead we lock our dark halves deep in the basement of our souls. And on the surface of our lives, we work industriously to shape the public story of our selves. We say, “Look, world, this is me.” We craft posts on social media . . . See this wonderful lunch I’m eating at this trendy restaurant with my besties, see my sexy shoes, my cute puppy, boyfriend, tight ass in a bikini. See my gloriously perfect life . . . see what a fucking fabulous time I’m having drunk and at this party with my boobs swelling out of my sparkly tank top. Just look at those hot guys draped all over me. Aren’t you jealous . . . And then you wait to see how many people LIKE this fabricated version of yourself, your mood hinging on the number of clicks. Comments. Who commented. But darkness has a way of seeping through the cracks. It seeks the light . . .
Loreth Anne White (The Drowned Girls (Angie Pallorino, #1))
- Secondo te le stelle sanno di pan di zucchero o di sale? - Non lo so, non le ho mai assaggiate. - Io sì, sono rimasta molte notti sul balcone della casa dei bambini chiusi. Le stelle in estate perdono briciole che arrivano in bocca. - E come sono? - Salate, a gusto di mandorla amara. - Le preferivo dolci. - Ma no, guasterebbero la terra per quante ne arrivano. Certe notti c'è tempesta di stelle sbriciolate. La terra è seminata da loro, riceve senza poter restituire. Allora dal basso si alzano le preghiere a sdebitarsi di alberi e di bestie che ringraziano.
Erri De Luca (Il giorno prima della felicità)
Quello che aveva detto Ermes era vero. A ogni istante moriva un mortale, in un naufragio o per via di una spada, a causa di bestie feroci o di uomini selvaggi, per malattia, abbandono e vecchiaia. Come mi aveva detto Prometeo, era il loro fato, la storia che tutti loro condividevano. Poco importa quanto fossero vivaci in vita, quanto fossero geniali, quante meraviglie avessero creato, tutti loro diventavano polvere e fumo. Nel frattempo ogni dio inutile e gretto avrebbe continuato a risucchiare lo splendore dell'aria fin quando le stelle non si fossero spente.
Madeline Miller (Circe)
Morremo tutti, stiamo per morire: se mi avanzano dieci minuti fra la sveglia e il lavoro, voglio dedicarle ad altro, a chiudermi in me stesso, a trarre le somme, o magari a guardaew il cielo e a pensare che lo vedo forse per l'ultima volta; o anche solo a lasciarmi vivere, a concedermi il lusso di un minuscolo ozio [...] Il Lager è una grande macchina per ridurci a bestie, noi bestie non dobbiamo diventare, che anche in questo luogo si può sopravvivere, e perciò si deve voler sopravvivere, per raccontare, per portare testimonianza; e che per vivere è importante sforzarci di salvare almeno lo scheletro, l'impalcatura, la forma della società.
Primo Levi (If This Is a Man • The Truce)
Che cosa avevano in comune quel corpo, l'uso che non poteva fare l'amore, i suoi inevitabili scopi, e il destino di un altro corpo di donna, votato a delicati rapimenti, dotato i una genialità da predone, di un'appassionata implacabilità, di una pedagogia ipocrita e incantatrice? "Nascondeva con difficoltà un dolore che non riusciva a comprendere. Che cosa aveva dunque conquistato, la notte scorsa, nell'ombra profumata, tra quelle braccia ansiose di farlo uomo e vittorioso? Il diritto di soffrire? Il diritto di mancare per debolezza davanti a una fanciulla innocente e pura? Il diritto di tremare se non si sa perchè, dinanzi alla delicata vita delle bestie e al sangue fuggito dalle sue sorgenti? "Ah, la luce sorda e rossastra di una camera sconosciuta! Ah, quella buia felicità, quella morte raggiunta per gradi, e poi la vita, recuperata a lenti colpi d'ala..." "Quelle piccole orecchie arrossate risuonavano ancora di un grido sommesso, soffocato come quello di un essere che venga sgozzato? Qulle braccia, ricche di muscoli appena visibili, l'avevano portato, leggero, confuso, da questo mondo in un altro mondo; quella bocca avara di parole, s'era chinaa per trasmetter e per mormorare, indistinto, un canto che nasceva debole eco, dalle profondità in cui la vita è una convulsione terribile...Ella sapeva tutto...
Colette Gauthier-Villars
Oh, don’t worry, I have big plans to make this as miserable as possible for him,” Fitz assured him. Keefe grinned. “That’s what I like to hear! If you need pointers for maximum annoyance, you know where to find me.” “I do,” Fitz agreed. “Wow, did they just fist-bump?” Ro asked. “You bet we did!” Keefe told her. “That’s what besties do, right, Fitzy?” Fitz’s nod couldn’t necessarily be described as “enthusiastic.” But he still made the gesture. Even gave Keefe half a smile as Fitz turned to head down the hall. “Ugh, the one time I’d been counting on you to annoy Fitz into storming off so I wouldn’t have to stand guard duty around your father,” Grizel grumbled to Keefe, “you have to go and be all mature.
Shannon Messenger (Legacy (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8))
Roxy was bi, and in my opinion she was—and still is—a total badass. Of all my childhood friends, this girl’s my bestie. Even when we were young, I knew deep down that Roxy was going to conquer the world. Her brilliance, coupled with her unwavering commitment to feminism and human rights, made her truly exceptional. And she cared, really cared, about animals and the pressing issues in our world. She wasn’t just one of these people that wore shirts and posted awareness videos online. She dedicated her weekends to protests and taking action. And I loved that she was hooking up with Amren, or whoever this girl was, if she made Roxy happy. I loved her. I loved all of her. Hopefully Amren would see how awesome Roxy was and make her feel special.
Kayla Cunningham
De ce nu mă sinucid? Fiindcă mie mi-e scîrbă atît de moarte, cît şi de viaţă. Sînt un om care ar trebui aruncat undeva, într-un cazan cu flăcări. Nu pricep absolut deloc ce-o fi cu mine în acest univers. Simt în acest moment o necesitate de a striga, de a scoate un urlet care să îngrozească întreaga lume, să facă pe toţi să tremure, să plesnească într-o nebunie de groază. Un trăsnet teribil îl simt virtual în mine şi mă mir cum nu izbucneşte pentru a nimici lumea asta, pe care aş înghiţi-o pentru totdeauna în neantul meu. Mă simt fiinţa cea mai teribilă care a existat vreodată în istorie, mă simt o bestie apocaliptică plină de flăcări şi întunecimi, de elanuri şi de disperări. Sînt o fiară cu un zîmbet grotesc, ce se adună în ea însăşi pînă la iluzie şi se dilată pînă la infinit, ce moare şi ce creşte în acelaşi timp, încîntată între nimic şi tot, exaltată între speranţa nimicului şi disperarea totului, crescută în parfumuri şi otrăvuri, arsă de iubire şi de ură, nimicită de lumini şi de umbre. Simbolul meu este moartea luminii şi flacăra morţii. În mine se stinge tot ceea ce e sclipire, pentru a renaşte în fulger şi în trăsnet. Şi întunericul însuşi nu arde el în mine?
Emil M. Cioran
FAUST: Ah, Faust, hai solo un'ora di vita, poi sarai dannato per sempre. Fermatevi sfere del cielo che eternamente ruotate, che il tempo finisca e mezzanotte non venga mai. Occhio lieto della natura, sorgi, sorgi di nuovo e fai un giorno eterno, o fai che un'ora duri un anno, un mese, una settimana, un giorno, che Faust possa pentirsi e salvare l'anima. "O lente lente currite noctis equi". Le stelle ruotano, il tempo corre, l'orologio suonerà, verrà il demonio e Faust sarà dannato. Salirò fino a Dio! Chi mi trascina in basso? Guarda, il sangue di Cristo allaga il firmamento e una sola goccia mi salverebbe, metà d'una goccia. Ah, mio Cristo, non uncinarmi il cuore se nomino Cristo. Lo dirò di nuovo. Risparmiami, Lucifero. Dov'è? E' scomparso. Vedo Dio che stende il braccio e china la fronte minacciosa Montagne e colline, venite, franatemi addosso, nascondetemi all'ira terribile di Dio. No, no? Allora mi getto a capofitto nella terra: apriti, terra. No, non mi dà riparo. Stelle che regnavate alla mia nascita e che mi avete dato morte e inferno, risucchiatevi Faust come una nebbia nelle viscere di quelle nubi incinte, affinché, quando vomitate in aria, il corpo cada dalle bocche fumose ma l'anima salga al cielo. (L'orologio suona) Ah, mezz'ora è passata. Presto passerà tutta. Dio, se non vuoi avere pietà di quest'anima almeno per amore di Cristo il cui sangue mi ha riscattato, assegna un termine alla mia pena incessante: che Faust resti all'inferno mille anni, centomila, e alla fine sia salvato. Ma non c'è fine alle anime dannate. Perché non sei una creatura senz'anima? Perché la tua dev'essere immortale? Metempsicosi di Pitagora, fossi vera, l'anima mi lascerebbe, sarei mutato in una bestia bruta. Felici le bestie che morendo cedono l'anima agli elementi, ma la mia vivrà torturata in eterno. Maledetti i genitori che mi fecero! No, Faust, maledici te stesso, maledici Lucifero che ti ha privato del cielo. (L'orologio suona mezzanotte). Suona, suona! Corpo, trasformati in aria, o Lucifero ti porterà all'inferno. Anima, mùtati in piccole gocce d'acqua e cadi nell'oceano, nessuno ti trovi. (Tuono, ed entrano i diavoli) Mio Dio, mio Dio, non guardarmi così feroce! Serpi e vipere, lasciatemi vivere ancora un poco. Inferno orribile, non aprirti. Non venire, Lucifero. Brucerò i miei libri. Ah, Mefistofele. (Escono con Faust. [Escono in alto Lucifero e i diavoli]) Christopher Marlowe, La tragica storia del Dottor Faust [Atto V, Scena II]
Christopher Marlowe (Dr. Faustus)
E' sempre stranamente toccante vedere come la nebbia separi tutto ciò che è vicino o apparentemente affine, come avvolga e racchiuda ogni figura, rendendola ineluttabilmente sola. Incroci un uomo, sulla strada maestra; ha con sé una mucca p una capra o spinge un carro e porta una fascina, e dietro a lui trotta, scodinzolando, il suo cane. Lo vedi avvicinarsi e lo saluti, e lui risponde al saluto; non appena è passato e ti giri a guardarlo, lo vedi già farsi indistinto e scomparire nel grigio, senza lasciar tracce. Non diversamente accade per case, recinzioni, alberi e vigneti. Credevi di conoscere tutti i dintorni a memoria e ora sei particolarmente stupito da quanto quel muro dista dalla strada, da quanto è alto quest'alberto e bassa quella casa. Capanne che credevi vicinissime sono così distanti l'una dall'altra che, dalla soglia dell'una , lo sguardo non riesce a raggiungere l'altra. E, vicinissimi, senti bestie e animali che non riesci a vedere, che si muovono e lavorano ed emettono richiami. Tutto ciò ha qualcosa di fiabesco, ignoto, trasognato, e per qualche istante avverti con spaventosa chiarezza il suo contenuto simbolico. Come, in fondo, tutte le cose e tutti gli uomini siano sempre, gli uni rispetto agli altri, chiunque essi siano, degli sconosciuti, inesorabilmente, e come le nostre strade si incrocino sempre per pochi passi e istanti, conquistando la fugace parvenza della comunione, della vicinanza e dell'amicizia.
Hermann Hesse (Pellegrinaggio d'autunno)
THE GREAT GULON INCIDENT: [JUST GONNA LEAVE THIS ONE WITH: REDACTED] [NOT THAT I HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS!] THE VACKER CONNECTION: [UH, FITZY’S MY BEST FRIEND—NOT A “CONNECTION.” AND ALDEN AND DELLA ARE WAY NICER TO ME THAN MY OWN PARENTS ARE. BIANA’S SUPER AWESOME TOO. ALVAR… NOT SO MUCH. I PROBABLY SHOULD’VE SEEN THAT ONE COMING. BUT WHATEVER, MY POINT IS: I DIDN’T TRY TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE VACKERS—NO MATTER WHAT WEIRD STUFF WAS IN ONE OF MY ERASED MEMORIES. SO DON’T GO THINKING THERE’S MORE TO IT THAN THAT.] [AND HOW DO YOU GUYS EVEN KNOW ABOUT THAT MEMORY? THAT KINDA MAKES ME WANT TO RIP THIS REGISTRY PENDANT OFF MY NECK AND THROW IT FAR, FAR AWAY!] INSTANT RIVALRY: [YOU THINK BANGS BOY AND ME ARE “RIVALS”? HATE TO BREAK IT TO YOU, BUT NOPE! I MEAN, YEAH, HE’S SUPER ANNOYING WITH ALL THE “LOOK AT ME, I’M A MOODY SHADE” NONSENSE—AND HIS HAIR IS TOTALLY RIDICULOUS. BUT THERE’S NO RIVALRY. JUST DON’T EXPECT US TO BE BESTIES, AND WE’LL BE GOOD.] UNWITTING ERRAND BOY: [OKAY, THAT SUBHEADING MAKES ME WANT TO PUNCH WHOEVER WROTE IT IN THE MOUTH. BUT… I GUESS IT’S ALSO KIND OF TRUE. MY MOM DID HAVE ME DO STUFF AND THEN ERASE MY MEMORIES SO I WOULDN’T KNOW ABOUT IT. MOM OF THE YEAR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. TRY NOT TO BE JEALOUS.] [AND I’M WORKING ON GETTING THOSE MEMORIES BACK, BY THE WAY. I’VE BEEN FILLING JOURNALS WITH DRAWINGS AND EVERYTHING. IT’S JUST TAKING A WHILE BECAUSE I’VE BEEN A LITTLE BUSY ALMOST DYING AND STUFF.] TEAM FOSTER-KEEFE: [WOO-HOO, TEAM FOSTER-KEEFE IS OFFICIALLY A THING!] [BUT THE REST OF THE STUFF IN THIS SECTION IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GETTING REDACTED. SERIOUSLY—BOUNDARIES, PEOPLE! FOSTER’S AMAZING—AND OBVIOUSLY WORKING WITH ME MAKES HER EVEN MORE AMAZING. BUT YOU GUYS NEED TO STOP WITH ALL OF YOUR WEIRDO SPECULATING.] ONE PART OF A TRIANGLE: [OKAY, THAT’S IT. I’M DEEEEEEEEEEFINITELY DITCHING THIS PENDANT THING. WHY IS THE COUNCIL PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS STUFF???????????] [ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW WHAT? IT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, BUT I’M GOING TO ADD ONE THING: FOSTER GETS TO DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS, OKAY? SHE CAN LIKE WHOEVER SHE WANTS. OR BE CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT SHE’S FEELING. SHE CAN EVEN BE OBLIVIOUS—IT’S HER LIFE. HER CHOICE. AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO STAY OUT OF IT.] [EVEN ME.] [ESPECIALLY ME. I WOULD NEVER WANT TO…] [NEVER MIND. MY POINT IS, LET THE POOR GIRL FIGURE THIS OUT ON HER OWN. AND SERIOUSLY, STAY OUT OF OUR LIVES!!!!]
Shannon Messenger (Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5))