- "I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.” - Sara Quin
- "I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.” - Virginia Woolf
- "Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses—especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” - Leonardo da Vinci
- "You’re so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.” - Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring
- “A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.” - ?
- “Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.” - Joan Bauer, "Almost Home"
- “Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but they make me feel so much better whenever I’m sad and blue. Just their presence, it’s like having more to look forward to.” - Unknown
- “Come sleep with me: we won’t make love. Love will make us.” - Julio Cortázar
- “Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.” - Meša Selimović
- “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” - Niccolò Machiavelli
- “I asked you to tell me about her and you asked me what I wanted to know and that’s when I knew you didn’t really love her. Because if you loved her then you would’ve told me about how her eyes light up when she laughs and she bites her lip when she’s sad. You would’ve told me about the way her teeth remind you of those glow-in-the-dark stars you stuck on your ceiling when you were little and the way her voice wraps around your bones and keeps you from shaking. You would’ve told me about the tips of her fingers and the way sunshine pours from her mouth. You would’ve told me about how she even looks pretty when she cries and the way she hides behind her hair. You would’ve told me about the way you want to live inside her ribcage and fall asleep in the crook of her neck. You would’ve told me that she tastes like the entire galaxy and she speaks in poetry. You would’ve told me that the sound of her breath while she sleeps is your new favorite song. You would’ve told me about how she’s in your blood and the way she’s got so much love in her veins that if you cut her open, you swear flowers would grow from inside of her. You would’ve told me about the way you love her, like I love you.” - I heard you got a new girlfriend
- “I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.” - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- “I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are still together.” - Warsan Shire
- “I’d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person. Because if you lack passion, your soul is diminishing by the second. You have to be passionate about something. Call it obsessed or whatever you want, but be obsessed about something. Obsessed people care. I’m passionate about so many things, it becomes an issue at certain points, but at least you have the ability to feel that much about something” - Matt Cohen
- “In my younger days, I would have taken this gin bottle and thrown it against the wall. Then smash the window open and cut myself with the shards. But, now I’m just going take a few steps back and go to bed. This is the science of getting older.” - Mary Montezuma
- “It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.” - Sylvia Plath
- “Never apologize for being nerdy, because unnerdy people never apologize for being assholes.” - John Barrowman, FandomFest 2013
- “One day someone is going to hug you so tight that all of your broken pieces will stick back together” - ?
- “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
- “Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” - Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- “Sexy doesn’t impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.” - Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
- “She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.” - Joyce Maynard
- “She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” - Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
- “Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer.” - Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
- “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
- “That’s what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I’m trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it’s over and there’s one more person in the world who thinks I’m a complete and total waste of space.” - Carol Rifka Brunt
- “The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive. They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions—sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments—both physical and emotional—unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss—another person’s shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly.” - Susan Cain
- “Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.” - Mandy Hale
- “What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for, and to do it so unconsciously.” - Haruki Murakami
- “What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?” - Maggie O’Farrell, After You’d Gone
- “When she is happy, she can’t stop talking, when she is sad she doesn’t say a word.” - Ann Brashares
- “When you find yourself drowning in self-hate, you have to remind yourself that you weren’t born feeling this way. That at some point in your journey, some person or experience sent you the message that there was something wrong with who you are, and you internalized those messages and took them on as your truth. But that hate isn’t yours to carry, and those judgments aren’t about you. And in the same way that you learned to think badly of yourself, you can learn to think new, self-loving and accepting thoughts. You can learn to challenge those beliefs, take away their power, and reclaim your own. It won’t be easy, and it won’t happen over night. But it is possible. And it starts when you decide that there has to be more to life than this pain you feel. It starts when you decide that you deserve to discover it.” - Daniell Koepke
- “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” - Wayne W. Dyer
- “Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.” - Virginia Woolf
- “You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.” - Max Lucado
- “You hang on to your pain like it means something. Like it’s worth something. Well, let me tell you - it’s not worth shit.” - Nathaniel Fisher, Six Feet Under
- “You think it’s cool to hate things. And it’s not. It’s boring. Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don’t.” - Liberal Arts
- “You’ll meet her, she’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.” - Pan’s Labyrinth
- “You’re going to discover that conversations are best at 4 am. The heavier the eyelids, the sincerer the words. Those are the talks you’ll remember. It’s ok not to know the answer and silence is not awkward. It’s shared, so share it more often than not.” - Jeff Stuckel
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