• "Let's become a person like Dad." — Kim Taehyung
• "If I don't have to do it, I won't. If I have to do it, I'll make it quick." — Houtarou Oreki
• "You're in a car with a beautiful boy..." — Richard Siken, You Are Jeff
• "...love is neither owed nor earned it either is or it’s not. I gave you the world. But you wanted the stars." — Beau Taplin, The Long Road
• “And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing." — Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
• “Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience." — John Steinbeck

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• "Go for someone who is proud to have you." — Frank Ocean
• "I realized why you’re not my cup of tea. I drink coffee." — Melanie
• "Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?" — Helena Bonham Carter
• "I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying." ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories