“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” Virginia Woolf

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.” ― Emily Brontë

“ At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.” Gustave Flaubert

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.” Haruki Murakami

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” Oscar Wilde

“Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?” Francesca Woodman

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend” Albert Camus

“ My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.” Wilkie Collins

“... soberbia y mendicante, inclinada hacia el brazo que sostenía la valija, no paciente, sino desprovista de la comprensión de la paciencia, con los ojos bajos, generando con su sonrisa el apetito suficiente para seguir viviendo, para contar a cualquiera, con un parpadeo, con un movimiento de la cabeza, que esta desgracia no importaba, que las desgracias sólo servían para marcar fechas, para separar y hacer inteligibles los principios y los finales de las numerosas vidas que atravesamos y existimos” - Juan Carlos Onetti

“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.” Diane Arbus

“Of course I loved books more than people.” Diane Setterfield

“ I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” Marilyn Monroe

“I can resist anything except temptation.” Oscar Wilde

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...” ― Richard Wright

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.” ― Daphne du Maurier

“I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.” ― Iris Murdoch

“I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?” ― Francesca Woodman

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.” ― Hans Christian Andersen

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” ― Charles Darwin

“If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.” ― Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?” ― Elaine May

“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.” ― Laura Hillenbrand

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.” ― Raymond Carver

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.” ― Eugene O'Neill

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.” ― Gilda Radner

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.” ― Jack London

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.” ― D.H. Lawrence

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.” ― Colette

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.” ― Paul Auster

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.” ― Irwin Shaw

“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.” ― Amy Sedaris

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.” ― Bobbie Ann Mason