- "One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not be a house; the brain has corridors surpassing material place." ( Haunted, Emily Dickinson)
- "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." ( No Particular Night Or Morning, Ray Bradbury)
- "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." ( Witch Baby, Francesca Lia Block)
- "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." ( White Oleander, Janet Fitch)
- "Don't hoard the past, Astrid. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge." ( White Oleander, Janet Fitch)
- "Scars are stories, history written on the body" (Kathryn Harrison)
- "I need to be cared for, like a potted plant." ( Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood)
- "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." ( The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami)
- "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." ( Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen)
- "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." ( Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood)
- "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?" ( Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll)
- "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see." ( Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll)
- "One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others" (Lewis Carrol)
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feb 27 2011 ∞
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