- Your body is the piece of the Universe you’ve been given. Geneen Roth
- The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the ocean. Isak Dinesen
- I am I, and I wish I weren’t. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them. Tahereh Maf
- I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore. Kurt Vonnegut
- I no longer know if I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea. Grantaire, Book V
- Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
- The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you.
- Confidence is being able to say ‘Fuck you, I’m the shit’ without opening your mouth, say it with your walk, with your smile, say it with your entire being. Tati-Ana Mercedes
- The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now. Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
- Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child. Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
- In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves. Steve Maraboli
- You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No. Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea
- Some people think that to be strong is to never feel pain. In reality, the strongest people are the ones who feel it, accept it, and learn and grow from it.
- A little damage makes people more interesting, right? Catherine Hapka, Something Borrowed
- Act like you trust people, but don’t.
- I love you in waves, and lately, everyday has been a hurricane. Amanda Helm
- Do not reach for the stars. They are giant balls of fiery gas. Waste of time.
- Don’t let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
- Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere
- My body has bruises from the words you told me.
- We are all books because we have spines and stories to tell.
- The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. Stephen McCranie
- I think the concept of virginity was created by men who thought their penises were so important it changes who a woman is.
- Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter. Samuel J.
- I am just a body filled up with incoherent words.
- You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn’t what you’d hoped. Failure means you’re learning. Growing. Doing. Chuck Wendig
- The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.
- Fear, Sadness. They’re not weaknesses. They are overpowering, defining emotions. They make you human. Fisher Amelie, Vain
- I’m tired… I’m so tired. I thought I just needed a night’s sleep, but it’s more than that. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
- You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing. E.E. Cummings
- When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you. Lemony Snicket
- The sadness will last forever. Suicide note of Vincent van Gogh
- Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are. John Green, Paper Towns
- My parents warned me about the drugs in the streets but never the ones with hazel eyes and a heartbeat.
- Sometimes love and loss hold hands together. Michael Faudet
- I thought the world of you, and I barely held a place in yours. a.p.
- The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison. Fyodor Dostoevsky
- so don’t tell me how love will rescue me, I was carnivorous about love, I ate love to the ankles, my thighs are gnawed with love Dionne Brand, excerpt from “Ossuaries III”
- We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves. Mike Taylor and Peter Gross Tommy Taylor And The Bogus Identity
- After high school you realize you were only friends with some people because you saw them five times a week.
- I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it. Margaret Atwood
- If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other. David Levithan, Every Day
- I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. George R.R. Martin
- I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. Henry Rollins, Solipsist
- I think I wanted it too much and you didn’t want it enough. Jay Crownover, Rule
- A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms. Zen Shin Talks
- Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life. Pablo Neruda
- I wish the ghosts would not make a home in our bones. Fragments, #1
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