• I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. - Augusten Burroughs
• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
• Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructable as we believe ourselves to be...We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. - Looking For Alaska
• I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?
• What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.- Paper Towns
• Nothing about me is original, I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. - Chuck Palahniuk
• I want women...to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish. - Gaga
• Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody - the Perks of Being A Wallflower
• There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they're faster or stronger than other fish. They're just touched by something extra. - Big Fish
• It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. - J.K. Rowling
• You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. - C.S. Lewis
• Sometimes I think I was born backwards... you know, come out of my mum the wrong way. I hear words go past me backwards. The people I should love, I hate, and the people I hate... - Effy Stonem
• So that’s, that’s what I think is love, mom.. When I’m better because she’s here. - Boy Meets World
• So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. - John Green
• "And what emotion have you chosen to depict?" "Anger, jealousy, bitterness, tiredness, hope, lust, love." "A veritable feast. So where is it?" "It’s everywhere." "My dear girl, I’m not sure I understand." "Its conceptual. You just can’t see it." - Effy/Skins
• "How would you like to be remembered?" "As someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. - JKR
• Shawn: You know, he used to tell me how wonderful you were, but guys always say great things about their girlfriends until they break up. That’s when the truth comes out. You know, I’ve waited fifteen years to find out what he really thinks about you. Do you wanna know what he thinks about you now that you’ve broken up?
  • Topanga: No. Shawn, I don’t wanna talk about him.
  • Shawn: Now that you’ve broken up, he still tells me how wonderful you are.
• We live in this irreparably world and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. - John Green
• The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished from the planet and there will be no one to remember that any of us ever did anything. But this fact, strangely, does not delegitimize hope, because every now and again we find evidence that hope is helpful. This evidence, in my opinion, should be celebrated--even as we lament and fight the devastation. - John Green
• "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." - Robert Frost

• I always have this fear that one day you are going to discover that I'm not as great as you once thought I was.
• Nothing feels as good as skinny feels. - Kate Moss
• I had rescued the moment by using my camera, and in that way I had found how to stop time and hold it. - Alice Sebold
• The things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. - Luna
• I guess in this society, being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time. - 10 Things I hate About You
• The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. - Harry Potter
• Nerds, like us, are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like, jump-up-and-down-in-your-chair-can't-control-yourself love it. When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is "You like stuff." Which is not a good insult at all. Like, "You are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness." - John Green
• So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be - the perks
• “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” - Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
• I don’t believe in mental blocks. I don’t believe in what other people tell me I can and can’t do. Basically, I have very little regard for the idea of “can’t”....It’s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the wider world. It is nothing but a vehicle for our greater creative purpose but if we don’t give it fuel and keep it in good working order it instead becomes another obstacle to transcend, a physical one, as well as the many million fictitious mental ones that society presents. - Evanna Lynch
• "Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’, ‘evil’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me." - Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I loved her and that was the beginning of everything.” - F Scott Fitzgerald
• travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.
• it is so hard to leave— until you leave. and then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. - paper towns
• the most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. these persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. beautiful people do not just happen. -elisabeth kübler-ross
• you see i usually find myself among strangers because i drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. - f scott fitzgerald
• for you, i was a chapter. for me, you were the book. - tom mcneal
• if only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. but we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.

— john green, looking for alaska

• you will hardly know who i am or what i mean,

but i shall be good health to you nevertheless, and filter and fibre your blood. - walt whitman

• to live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - joseph chilton pearce
• In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do. - C.S. Lewis
• ‘i love you’ means that i accept you for the person that you are, and that i do not wish to change you into someone else. it means that i will love you and stand by you even through the worst of times. it means loving you even when you’re in a bad mood, or too tired to do the things i want to do. it means loving you when you’re down, not just when you’re fun to be with. ‘i love you’ means that i know your deepest secrets and do not judge you for them, asking in return that you do not judge me for mine. it means that i care enough to fight for what we have and that i love you enough not to let go. it means thinking of you, dreaming of you, wanting and needing you constantly, and hoping you feel the same way for me.

— jonathan safran foer

• i also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you’re feeling like hell and expect you to say ‘fine.’

— the bell jar, sylvia plath

• i fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. and it’s these things i’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. i loved her and that was the beginning of everything.

— f. scott fitzgerald

• i like people too much or not at all. - sylvia plath
• Look, we don't have to put a label on it, I get it. I just need some consistency. I need to know that you're not gonna wake up in the morning and feel differently. / I can't give you that. Nobody can.
• i’m just scared of ghosts, pudge. and home is full of them.
• but there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

— cry, the beloved country by alan paton

• i like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. this is the night, what it does to you. i had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

— jack kerouac

• we should meet in another life, we should meet in air,

me and you. — sylvia plath

• walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. then you can choose what you really want. you will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.

— the four agreements, don miguel ruiz

• when you are old, yeats
• why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you’? no, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.

— this side of paradise, f. scott fitzgerald.

• the need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

— georges bataille

• i hurry home as though someone is there waiting for me.

the night collapses into your skin. i am the rain. — kazim ali, from “rain”

• and all i loved, i loved alone - edgar allen poe
• “I exist as I am. That is enough.”
• I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person. olivia wilde
• And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured

Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it. - T.S. Eliot the cocktail party

• “I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.”

— Sylvia Plath

"“…it’s about that time in a relationship that I was going through; you’re in a relationship because you need help, but that’s not necessarily why you should be in a relationship. And that’s skinny. It doesn’t have weight. Skinny love doesn’t have a chance because it’s not nourished.”

— Justin Vernon"

• "When you leave, and everyone always leaves, I will be left once more with an empty heart and no hope." "My experience is that there is, you know, surprisingly, always hope." - Vincent and the Doctor, Doctor Who
• but i think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. you need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person. - olivia wilde
• that’s who you really like. the people you can think out loud in front of.

— john green

• when it comes to hiccups, and also when it comes to everything else, i like to remind myself that every other time i thought something wasn’t going to end, it ended.

— john green

• how much of my brain is willfully my own? how much is not a rubber stamp of what i have read and heard and lived?

— sylvia plath

• i wonder if beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same a way soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger, we all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

— andrea gibson

• i wish i were a poet. i’ve never confessed that to anyone, and i’m confessing it to you, because you’ve given me reason to feel that i can trust you. i’ve spent life observing the universe, mostly in my mind’s eye. it’s been a tremendously rewarding life, a wonderful life. i’ve been able to explore the origins of time and space with some of the great living thinkers. but i wish i were a poet. albert einstein, a hero of mine, once wrote, ‘our situation is the following. we are standing in front of a closed box which we cannot open.’ i’m sure i don’t have to tell you that the vast majority of the universe is composed of dark matter. the fragile balance depends on things we’ll never be able to see, hear, smell, taste, or touch. life itself depends on them. what’s real? what isn’t real? maybe those aren’t the right questions to be asking. what does life depend on? i wish i had made things for life to depend on.

— jonathan safran foer

• it’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. i know sadness. sadness is to cry and to feel. but it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.

— j.k. rowling

• that was the thing about words. they were clear and specific: chair, eye, stone. but when you talked about feelings words became stiff. they were this and not that, they couldn’t include all the meanings. in defining, they always left something out.

— janet fitch

• maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. it’s gonna hurt. it’s gonna hurt because it matters.

— john green

• how do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

— john green, an abundance of katherines

• thank you god for most this amazing

day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth day of life and love and wings;and of the gay great happening ilimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any - lifted from the no of all nothing - human merely being doubt unimaginable you? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened) — e.e. cummings

• you ought to spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people.

— the breakfast club

• the venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t want to date is a circle.

— john green

• "Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle" —Charles Dickens
• "There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone." —Nicole Krauss
• "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." —E.E. Cummings
• "We must get over wanting to be needed—this is the hardest of all temptations to resist." —C.S. Lewis
• "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"

- Jean Kerr

• "I don't even know what I was running for. I guess I just felt like it." - Holden Caulfield
• "Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row." - Holden Caulfield
• "So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them." – Sylvia Plath
• maybe when you’re older you will understand why you don’t feel right, why you can’t sleep at night now. - Arcade Fire
• i didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — i wanted to kiss you goodnight. and there’s a lot of difference.

— ernest hemingway

• she’s never where she is,” i said. “she’s only inside her head.

— janet fitch, white oleander

• this morning, with her, having coffee.

— johnny cash, when asked for his definition of paradise

• socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. people assume we loners are misanthropes, just ­sitting thinking, ‘oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. we just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. it means having to perform. i get so tired of communicating.

— anneli rufus

• that’s the whole trouble. you can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. you may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “f*** you” right under your nose.

— j.d. salinger, catcher in the rye

• sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. the warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

— d. h. lawrence, sons and lovers

• i am always sad, i think. perhaps this signifies that i am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and i am always the same thing. perhaps i am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. perhaps i am lucky.

— jonathan safran foer