• The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. - The Bell Jar
• I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. - The Bell Jar
• I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free. - The Bell Jar
• I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. - The Bell Jar
• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. - The Bell Jar
• The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it. - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war. - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Dr. Suess
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde
• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience; this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain
• All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. - Chuck Palahnuik
• Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy
• “Strike another match, go start anew.”
• i'm damaged bad at best -elliot smith
• "It's only after you've lost everything, that you're free to do anything."

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people."--J.D. Salinger