- "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
- "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." —F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "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
- "I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ." —Anais Nin
- "We must get over wanting to be needed—this is the hardest of all temptations to resist." —C.S. Lewis
- "No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself." —Virginia Woolf
- "The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed." —Charlotte Brontë
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