“By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“It was so wonderful to be there, safe at home, sheltered from the winds and the cold. Laura thought that this must be a little like heaven, where the weary are at rest.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“The hours between 12am and 6am have a funny habit of making you feel like you’re either on top of the world, or under it.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“You can’t make homes out of human beings, someone should have already told you that.”— Warsan Shire, genius.com
“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.”— Greta Garbo, goodreads.com
“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“When I talk to you I am happy. Because you listen, and my words find a home.”— Edmond Jabès, amazon.com
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times,…”— E. B. White, lettersofnote.com
“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.”— Alain de Botton, goodreads.com
“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“What if instead of the right words, all that it took was the right pair of ears and the right beating heart?”— Mary Kate Teske, quotemadness.com