“Truth is like poetry… and most people hate poetry.” -Overheard at a Washington DC bar.
“I’ve decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that’s all I can do.”
— Haruki Murakami
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“I’m homesick all the time … I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”
— Sarah Addison Allen
“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
“Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.”
— Stephen Levine
“I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.”
— Ralph Ellison
“You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.”
— Unknown
“Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.”
— Nikita Gill
“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
— I’ll Give You The Sun (Jandy Nelson)
“Stay afraid but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
— Carrie Fisher
“I saw something that reminded me of you. I wanted to show you, but then I remembered that we don’t talk anymore.”
— Unknown
“The devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.”
— Tucker Max
“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”
— Eartha Kitt