“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”

—Paulo Coelho 

“ Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. ”

—Oscar Wilde

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

—John Steinbeck; The Winter of Our Discontent

“'Don't let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your 'personality,' as you persist in calling it; at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmthy of 4pm.' ”

—This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.' ”

—Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“If you are using dialogue - say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech. ”

—John Steinbeck

“Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. ”

—Ayn Rand

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone ”

—Orson Welles

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction -- every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.” ”

—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (x)

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Whoever controls the past controls the future; whoever controls the present, controls the past.”

—George Orwell, 1984

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see. ”

—James Baldwin

“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”

—Tennessee Williams

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”

—Junot Diaz, “This Is How You Lose Her”

“Forgiveness is the fragrance a violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

—Mark Twain (andshelaughss.tumblr.com)

“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

—-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and The Damned
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