" Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it." -L.J. Smith, The Awakening.

"I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude." -Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits.

"To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world." Charles Baudelaire

" I like simple things, books,being alone, or with somebody who understands." Daphne du Maurier

"She lives in dreams, alone." -Virginia Woolf, from Complete works

"We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss." -Paulo Coelho

"Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods,music.Plants and the seasons. Also freedom." -Charles Frazier

"Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars." -Victor Hugo

"I want to be cured of a craving for something I can't find and of the shame of never finding it." -T.S. Eliot

" And I do nothing but dream everyday that at last I shall meet someone. Oh, if only you know how often I have been in love in that way." -Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Let us go forth, the teller of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart longs for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the Earth is only a little dust under our feet." -W.B. Yeats

"You know I am old in some ways-in others-well, I am just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness." -F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Other Side of Paradise

"No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world."- Florence and the Machine Blinding

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde

"Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness" - Katherine Henson

"People like you and me are quite lonely really but we still have each other, we have the secret satisfaction of being different, of rebelling, of desiring the unusual."- Hermann Hesse

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." Kurt Vonnegut

"She was a curious girl, a wanderer,who spent her summers chasing fluttering pieces of prose and eating strawberries." Michael Faudet

"You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky. Since life, in spite of everything, is like a fairytale."- Vincent Van Gogh

"Whatever I do without feeling has no value." -Anais Nin

"Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate,tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same." Anais Nin

"I dream too much, work too little."- Sylvia Plath

"It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water."Sylvia Plath "The Bell Jar"

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."

"Trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it."

"I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me."- Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"You are so young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best as I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like backed rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now."- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

" I should have loved a thunderbird instead. At least when spring comes they roar back again;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; (I think I made you up inside my head.)"- Sylvia Plath, A Mad Girl's Love Song

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