vincent van gogh

• i know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
• normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
• there is peace even in the storm.
• keep going, keep going come what may.

edgar allan poe

• i am a writer. therefore, i am not sane.
• i became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
• there is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
• from childhood's hour i have not been as others were; i have not seen as others saw.
• and all i loved, i loved alone.

virgil

• if i cannot bend the will of heaven, i shall move hell.

sade andria zabala

• tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.

william shakespeare

• "these violent delights have violent ends."
• "hell is empty and all the devils are here."

atticus

• my darling, you will never be unloved by me. you are too well tangled in my soul.

sarah williams

• though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; i have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

clarice lispector

• it is because i dove into the abyss that i am beginning to love the abyss i am made of.
• she believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed.

kait rokowski

• nothing ever ends poetically. it ends and we turn it into poetry. all that blood was never once beautiful. it was always just red.

frantz fanon

• in the world through which i travel, i am endlessly creating myself.

lewis carroll — alice in wonderland

• "if i had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense."
• "i know who i was when i got up this morning, but i think i must have been changed several times since then."
• "i can't explain myself, i'm afraid, sir. because i'm not myself, you see."
• “have i gone mad?” “i'm afraid so. you're entirely bonkers. but i'll tell you a secret: all the best people are.”
• "we're all mad here."
• “if you don't know where you are going, any road can take you there.”
• she generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).

neil gaiman — coraline

• "when you're scared, but you still do it anyway, THAT's brave."

antoine de saint-exupéry — the little prince

• "for instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, i'll begin to be happy by three."
• "and now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
• "all grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."
• “the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
• “well, i must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if i wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”

robert frost

• the only way out is through.
• poetry is what gets lost in translation.
• to be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
• freedom lies in being bold.
• forgive me my nonsense as i also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

jim elliot

• wherever you are, be all there.

author unknown

• to everything i've lost, thank you for setting me free.
• may the bridges i burn light the way.
• times are tough but i am tougher. i'll be fine.

television

• you're inside the maze now. you cannot escape. welcome to madness. — legion S02E01.
• some people are just born with tragedy in their blood. — donnie darko.