“I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find - is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.”
— Beau Taplin, Hunting Season
I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.
Joanne Harris
I think I might always be in some kind of love with you.
F. Cabanes
I’ll be here just waiting and hoping for every long dream of you to come true.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be.”
— Unknown
We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
Rick Warren
Deep in my heart I know I am a loner. I’ve tried to blend in with the world and be sociable, but the more people I meet the more disappointed I am. So I’ve learned to enjoy myself, my family, and a few good friends.
Steven Aitchison
“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
— John Wooden
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.”
— Frida Kahlo
“The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.”
— Unknown
“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“Staying quiet doesn’t mean I have nothing to say, it means I don’t think you’re ready to hear my thoughts.”
— Unknown
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
Ernest Hemingway