Different world Quote by Adam Baker

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

— Charles Williams

“I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It is not so much that we have a self, it's that we do self-ing.”

— Rick Hansen

“I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will. She stared…

— Jojo Moyes

“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”

— Nora Roberts

“Once I acknowledge that life owes me nothing, I have positioned myself so that I can begin to enjoy everything.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires. I was…

— Haruki Murakami

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I suppose it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which…

— Marcel Proust

“She gasped. In his eyes, in just a heartbeat or two, she saw herself for what she was: a creature of this broken world,…

— Jack Borden