- “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.” Edgar Allen Poe
- "One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not be a house; the brain has corridors surpassing material place." Emily Dickinson (Haunted)
- "I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. I’ve always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you’ve died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that’s a lot of corpses, each dead in a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don’t know or understand or want to understand." __Ray Bradbury__(No Particular Night Or Morning)
- "Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for." Ray Bradbury
- "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." Albus Dumbledore
- "You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you." J.M. Barrie
- "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." C.S. Lewis
- "My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one." Francesca Lia Block (Witch Baby)
- "Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want." Janet Fitch (White Oleander)
- "Don't hoard the past, Astrid. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge." Janet Fitch (White Oleander)
- "Scars are stories, history written on the body" Kathryn Harrison
- "I need to be cared for, like a potted plant." Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)
- "Every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning." __Haruki Murakami__(The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
- "Scar tissue has no character. It’s not like skin. It doesn’t show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It’s like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what’s beneath. That’s why we grow it, we have something to hide." Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted)
- "I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion." Yohji Yamamoto
- "When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that." Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)
- "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures In Wonderland)
- "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see." Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures In Wonderland)
- "One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others" Lewis Carroll
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