01
“YOUR QUOTE GOES HERE.”
— AUTHOR / SOURCE
WHY I KEPT IT
This is where I write what the quote actually means to me instead of letting somebody else's words do all the fucking work.
BIPOLAR SOBER / PERSPECTIVES / QUOTES
WORDS WORTH KEEPING.
SHIT I UNDERLINED.
SHIT I WROTE DOWN.
SHIT THAT FOLLOWED ME HOME.
01 / WHY QUOTES?
SOMETIMES
ONE FUCKING
SENTENCE.
I like quotes because sometimes somebody manages to put an entire idea into one sentence.
But I'm not interested in collecting profound-looking words just because they'd look good slapped over a sunset.
If I keep a quote, I want to know why.
WHAT DID IT MAKE ME NOTICE?
WHAT DID IT CHALLENGE?
WHY THE FUCK DID I SAVE IT?
WHAT DID IT CHALLENGE?
WHY THE FUCK DID I SAVE IT?
02 / THE COLLECTION
READ IT.
SIT WITH IT.
ARGUE WITH IT.
A growing collection of words that made me stop long enough to think.
02
“YOUR QUOTE GOES HERE.”
— AUTHOR / SOURCE
WHY I KEPT IT
What was happening when I found it? What did it remind me of? What part of my life did it hit?
03
“YOUR QUOTE GOES HERE.”
— AUTHOR / SOURCE
WHY I KEPT IT
Maybe I agree with it. Maybe I don't completely. Maybe that's exactly why I wrote the fucking thing down.
04
“YOUR QUOTE GOES HERE.”
— AUTHOR / SOURCE
WHY I KEPT IT
The part that stayed with me after I closed the book, left the room, or moved on with my day.
05
“YOUR QUOTE GOES HERE.”
— AUTHOR / SOURCE
WHY I KEPT IT
Some words don't give me an answer. They just give me a better fucking question.
06
“YOUR QUOTE GOES HERE.”
— AUTHOR / SOURCE
WHY I KEPT IT
If it changed the way I looked at something, it earns a place here.
03 / WHAT I KEEP COMING BACK TO
SAME QUESTIONS.
DIFFERENT
WORDS.
The quotes I save tend to circle around the same handful of things.
Apparently my brain has themes.
04 / CONTEXT MATTERS
TEN WORDS
AREN'T THE
WHOLE BOOK.
A quote is a fragment.
It can be useful, beautiful, funny, uncomfortable, or exactly what I needed to read that day.
It can also lose half its meaning when somebody rips it away from everything surrounding it.
WHO SAID IT?
WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
WHAT WERE THEY ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT?
WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
WHAT WERE THEY ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT?
Context doesn't ruin a good quote.
Usually it makes the quote more fucking interesting.
05 / AND SOMETIMES IT'S MINE
WRITE YOUR
OWN SHIT
DOWN.
Not everything worth remembering came from somebody famous.
Sometimes it's something I wrote in a journal. Something somebody said to me. Something I realized in recovery. Something I scribbled down because I knew I'd forget it later.
Those belong here too.
YOUR OWN WORDS DON'T HAVE TO BE
FAMOUS TO BE WORTH REMEMBERING.
FAMOUS TO BE WORTH REMEMBERING.
DON'T JUST SAVE THE WORDS.
ASK WHY
THEY FUCKING
MATTER.
Keep the ones that make you stop. Keep the ones that make you think. Keep the ones you need to find again.
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