“The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.”— Joanna Hoffman, goodreads.com
“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”— Azar Nafisi, amazon.com
“The sea and the sky- how strange that somewhere they can exist apart.”— Mikhail Shishkin, amazon.com
“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that’s where I imagine it - there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance... You have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else… But you say, ‘I don’t know where to look; I don’t know what to look for.‘ And there’s the crux. Is it wor…”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.”— Martin Farquhar Tupper, amazon.com
“A lot of people tell me I’m a bit dreamy. But I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”— Alex Turner, genius.com
“And if you are someone who still carries hope in your heart, kindness in your eyes and generosity in your fingertips despite terrible people happening to you, thank you. You are one of the few truly pure things left in this world, and you deserve to be protected.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”— Rumi, amazon.com