- Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison. And the crime is how much we hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while. And admit the truth: that when you really look closely? People are so strange and so complicated that they're actually... beautiful. Possibly even me. (My So-Called Life, 2004)
- I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this. (XVII, Pablo Neruda)
- ...if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire, the impalpable ash, or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. (If You Forget Me, Pablo Neruda)
- Sometimes we speak to change the world; other times, we speak to keep the world from changing us. (The Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne)
- If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.(Lemony Snicket)
- The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. (Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger)
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. (Anatole France)
- Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. (Gore Vidal)
- I know I'm alone if I'm with or without you but just bein' around you offers me another form of relief. (Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes)
- Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too. (Lemony Snicket)
- It’s so funny how we set qualifications for the right person to love, while at the back of our minds we know that the person we truly love will always be an exception.
- You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. (C.S. Lewis)
- Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do. (David Levithan)
- I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real. (Marc Jacobs)
- That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste. (John Green - Paper Towns)
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