• "Je ne comprends que l'amour et la liberté" — Les Misérables
• “I think about dying but I dont want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There’s so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I’m still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can’t quite figure out what the hell I’m doing or how to get out of it.” — Matty Healy
• “We are all creatures of the stars.” – Doris Lessing, Shakasta
• “I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much.” — Sandra Cisneros
• I hope that in the future they invent a small golden light that follows you everywhere and when something is about to end, it shines brightly so you know it’s about to end. And if you’re never going to see someone again, it’ll shine brightly and both of you can be polite and say, “It was nice to have you in my life while I did, good luck with everything that happens after now.” And maybe if you’re never going to eat at the same restaurant again, it’ll shine and you can order everything off the menu you’ve never tried. Maybe, if someone’s about to buy your car, the light will shine and you can take it for one last spin. Maybe, if you’re with a group of friends who’ll never be together again, all your lights will shine at the same time and you’ll know, and then you can hold each other and whisper, “This was so good. Oh my God, this was so good.” — Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
• “Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
• “My only anxiety is, how can I be of use in the world?” – Vincent Van Gogh
• “The wreckage of stars — I built a world from this wreckage.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Through the Circle of Dionysian Dithyrambs
• “We have not touched the stars,nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.” — Richard Siken, Crush
• “In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.” – Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book
• “But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
• “Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;

I have seen worse sights than this.” — Homer, The Odyssey

• “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “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, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath