Latest Quotes

“I do not want to look for a mad passionate affair. Not because I’m frightened but because, please believe me, I do not want a lover. I want a friend.”

— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters

“Every love story is a ghost story.”

— David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“At times I hardly can believe in you. Except this ache, this longing in my gut, this emptiness which theorizes you because if there is emptiness this deep,there must be fullness somewhere.”

— Erica Jong, Half-Lives

“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”

— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“It’s just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.”

— Robin Benway, The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June

“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”

— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Sadness is knowing I cannot stay here forever, no house to be found inside of love. It is nothing but open space, endless sky, shards of sun like rain.”

— Stephanie Barelman, Sunstruck

“I scarcely know where to begin, but love is always a safe place.”

— Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson Letters

“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, The Awful Truth

“Perhaps the fact that I chased a boy who ripped me to shreds says a lot more about me than it did about him.”

— Michelle K., Lessons Learned

“I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both.”

— Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye, An Origin Story

“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.”

— Gavin De Becker, The Gift Of Fear

“Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.”

— Sarah Dessen, The Moon And More

“As a public speaker, Thiel is like most of us: Interesting if you’re willing to pay attention. By contrast, Denton holds court like an aging movie star. He’s witty and ruthless. He’s Simon from American Idol.”

— Paul Boutin, In Tech's Batman v Superman, Gawker's Nick Denton Sets a Trap for Peter Thiel

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good eith…”

— Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald

“With the exception of shows on public television or subscription services like Netflix and HBO, commercials pay for the shows we like. If we cut that off, we push television executives into new levels of subliminal trickery. Maybe we’ll decide that’s a fair trade.”

— Jim Rutenberg, When TV Ads Go Subliminal With a Vengeance, We’ll Be to Blame

“When we run a heavy TV schedule, we see a lift in sales and product awareness. We need to run two weeks of digital to get the reach of one day of broadcast.”

— Rich Lehrfeld, Dear TV: We Love You. You're Perfect. Now Change. (But Not Too Much.)

“The idea is to participate in your existence.”

— Buddy Wakefield, Free Air

“So Facebook, born of the open Internet that knocked down the traditional barriers to information, becomes a gatekeeper itself. It now has an inordinate power to control a good part of the national discussion should it choose to do so, a role it shares with Silicon Valley competitors like Google and…”

— Jim Rutenberg, Facebook’s Troubling One-Way Mirror

“Sometimes you had to be a little bit insane. You had to say, 'Give me that. Let me do it.' You had to take things from the world and bend them and then put them back in the world, bent like that.”

— Tao Lin, Insomnia For A Better Tomorrow