• "somethings once you've loved them become yours forever. and if you try to let them go they only circle back and return to you. they become apart of who you are."

——— kill your darlings

• "when the big bang happened, all the atoms in the universe, they were all smashed together into one little dot that exploded outward. so my atoms and your atoms were certainly together then, and, who knows, probably smashed together several times in the last 13.7 billion years. so my atoms have known your atoms and they've always known your atoms. my atoms have always loved your atoms."

——— i origins

• "god says we need to love our enemies. it hard to do. but it can start by telling the truth. no one had ever asked me what it feel like to be me. once i told the truth about that, i felt free. and i got to thinking about all the people i know. and the things i seen and done."

——— the help

• "sometimes i think i have felt everything i'm ever gonna feel. and from here on out, i'm not gonna feel anything new. just lesser versions of what i've already felt."

——— her

• "we don't read and write poetry because it's cute. we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. and the human race is filled with passion. and medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."

——— dead poets society

• "we rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. but to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!"

——— call me by your name

• "lo que hace el planetario es ponerme en mi lugar. recordarme que el mundo no gira alrededor mío, que soy una parte muy pequeña de un planeta, que es parte de un sistema, que es parte de una galaxia, que como cientos de miles de galaxias forman parte del universo. me recuerda que soy parte de un todo infinito y eterno."

——— medianeras

• "never love a wild thing… he was always lugging home wild things. a hawk with a hurt wing. one time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. but, you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. until they're strong enough to run into the woods. or fly into a tree. then a taller tree. then the sky. that's how you'll end up… if you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky."

——— breakfast at tiffany's

• "we're afraid that we will never escape our past. we're afraid of what the future will bring. we're afraid we won't be loved, we won't be liked. and we won't succeed."

——— lady bird