• I was experiencing one of those horriblebeautifulterrifying

disgustingwondrousinsane unprecedentedeuphoricsensation disturbingthrillinghideous sublimenauseatingexceptional feelings that's quite hard to describe unless you chanced upon the right word. - A Fraction of The Whole, Steve Toltz

• I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them. - Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
• There are songs that make us want to dance, songs that make us want to sing along, but the best songs are the ones that bring you back to the moment you first heard them & once again, break your heart.
• "'Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts is tough as a shoe. Did you ever sew up a heart?'

I shook my head. 'No, but I've watched. I know what you mean.' The walls of a heart are thick and strong, and the surgeons use heavy needles. It takes a good bit of strength, but it pulls together neatly. As much as anything it's like binding a book.

'The seat of human emotion should be the liver,' Doc Homer said. 'That would be an appropriate metaphor: we don't hold love in our hearts, we hold it in our livers.'

I understand exactly. Once in the ER I saw a woman who'd been stabbed everywhere, most severly in the liver. It's an organ with the consistency of layer upon layer of wet Kleenex. Every attempt at repair just opens new holes that tear and bleed. You try to close the wound with fresh wounds, and you try and you try and you don't give up until there's nothing left."

-Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver