• "But lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it"

-How to be Alone

• "home is where everything falls apart and subsequently falls together"

-Jessie Roth

• "There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

• "I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you."

-Frida Kahlo

• "And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it’s enough. I really do because they’ve made me happy. And I’m only one person."

- Stephen Chbosky

• Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

-The Iliad, Homer

• "I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again"

— This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald

• You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.

-Azar Nafisi

• "So it goes. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to anymore."

— Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

• "How beautiful is it to stay silent when someone expects you to be enraged from them. And how beautiful it is to laugh when someone thinks you are going to shed tears"
• "I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."

— John Keats