- "I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person." - Oscar Wilde
- "The conversation between your fingers and someone else's skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have." - I Wrote This For You
- "I need the sea because it teaches me." - Pablo Neruda
- “Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage might work: Because you wear pink but write poems about bullets and gravestones. Because you yell at your keys when you lose them, and laugh, loudly, at your own jokes. Because you can hold a pistol, gut a pig. Because you memorize songs, even commercials from thirty years back and sing them when vacuuming. You have soft hands. Because when we moved, the contents of what you packed were written inside the boxes Because you think swans are overrated. Because you drove me to the train station. You drove me to Minneapolis. You drove me to Providence. Because you underline everything you read, and circle the things you think are important, and put stars next to the things you think I should think are important, and write notes in the margins about all the people you’re mad at and my name almost never appears there. Because you make that pork recipe you found in the Frida Khalo Cookbook. Because when you read that essay about Rilke, you underlined the whole thing except the part where Rilke says love means to deny the self and to be consumed in flames. Because when the lights are off, the curtains drawn, and an additional sheet is nailed over the windows, you still believe someone outside can see you. And one day five summers ago, when you couldn’t put gas in your car, when your fridge was so empty—not even leftovers or condiments-there was a single twenty-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew, which you paid for with your last damn dime because you once overheard me say that I liked it.” - Michael Olzmann, "Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Story"
- “Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn’t care all that much if you live or die.” - Anthony Doerr
- "No, sir, it's time, it's already high time... It's long overdue, sir, and in my opinion humaneness is the first thing, humaneness towards one's subordinates, remembering that they, too, are people. Humaneness will save everything and set everything on the right path..." - Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky, A Nasty Business by Fyodor Dostoevesky
- "You must write every single day of your life. You must lurk in libraries to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world." - Ray Bradbury
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