“While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in a windowpane.” ”

—Billy Collins

“Hannibal doesn’t think of himself as gay. He doesn’t think of himself as straight. He thinks of himself as a god.”

—Kirby Crow [x]

“Schadenfreude,' Colin said. Finding pleasure in others' pain.”

—John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.” ”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Comparison is the thief of joy. Don’t live your life looking at what others have. Everyone’s path in life is different.

“Once I fell off my bike, once I fell up the stairs, once I fell into a lake, once I fell in love, once I fell out of love, once I turned once into twice. The second time I usually remember. But how do you know which of the "once" are worth it? Anyway, you fall and you get back up. You fall and you get back up. You get up just to fall again. Always. Just. Get. Up.”

—Tay Jardine

“Leggevo e rileggevo lo stesso libro molte volte, e a volte chiudevo gli occhi e mi riempivo i polmoni del suo odore. Il semplice annusare quel libro, scorrere le dita tra le pagine, per me era la felicità.”

—Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”

—Jack Kerouac

“Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy. ”

—Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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