- "Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." - Margaret Atwood
- "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Edgar Degas
- "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh
- "I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited." - Sylvia Plath
- "I don’t know, sometimes it goes precisely like this: you write pages, and they mean nothing. Then, at some point, you write one single line and it ends up sounding suffocatingly right. You never know why or how. And you can feel it being right." - Virginia Woolf
- "I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give." - Sylvia Plath
- "I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself." - Anaïs Nin
- "I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It’s lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them." - Laura Marling
- "I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again." - Anaïs Nin
- "It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- "Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing in the world force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren’t inherently bad people, but they aren’t the right people for us. And as hard as it is, we have to let them go. Life is hard enough without being around people who bring you down, and as much as you care, you can’t destroy yourself for the sake of someone else. You have to make your wellbeing a priority. Whether that means breaking up with someone you care about, loving a family member from a distance, letting go of a friend, or removing yourself from a situation that feels painful — you have every right to leave and create a safer space for yourself." - Daniell Koepke
- "She had a heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad, too easily impressed; she liked whate'er she looked on, and her looks went everywhere." - Robert Browning
- "She is lush and prolific like the tropics, and like the tropics, absorbing." - Anaïs Nin
- "So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. And does not smite me down." - Sylvia Plath
- "There you have it, from science, what God has been whispering all along through stones, madmen and birds’ entrails: hardness of the heart can kill you." - Margaret Atwood
- "When I cannot bear outer pressures any more, I begin to put order in my belongings. I get satisfaction from perfect order in my papers, in my clothes, in the house. I carry this to excess. As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects. There is a mania for discarding the useless, uncluttering the house, beautifying, tidying, a mania for superefficiency. I spend hours on this. It gives me peace." - Anaïs Nin
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