“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”— Joan Didion, nytimes.com
“I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it.”— Hanamoto Hagumi, amazon.com
“I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.”— Kurt Cobain, amazon.com
“We create as a means to become complete, yet creativity is infinite.”— Noah A. Nemley (via LEGENDMEDIA), quotemadness.com
“Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lie And burn.”— Charlotte Mew, amazon.com
“I’m out on my own, making my way. Trying to be someone that I can be proud of one day.”— Jack Savoretti, play.spotify.com
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.”— Joss Whedon, articles.chicagotribune.com
“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“I love you not for whom you are, but who I am when I am by your side.”— Gabriel García Márquez, direstraitsblog.com
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”— Louisa May Alcott, amazon.com
“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“You were a summer gift, one I’ll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I’ll never really see. You’re the best thing that will ever happen to me.”— Ellen Hopkins, amazon.com