“People leave without an explanation -- and it hurts like hell. It's wildly confusing. But, the only thing you can really do is take everything you learned from the situation, grow from it, and leave the rest where it belongs, in the past.”— Andrea Davis, instagram.com
“Weird how you can confuse two feelings so different. Cold and hot. Pain and love”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”— C. S. Lewis, goodreads.com
“I, too, remember that feeling. You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Personally, I’m a mess of conflicting impulses — I’m independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the whole.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“I want to be alone and I want people to notice me - both at the same time.”— Thom Yorke, citizeninsane.eu
“I, too, remember that feeling. You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.”— Jennifer Echols, amazon.com
“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.”— Quotemadness, quotemadness.com
“You don’t want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.”— Evelyn Waugh, amazon.com
“It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”— Ian McEwan, amazon.com
“There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”— Aidan Chambers, amazon.com
“I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it’s ‘War and Peace’ every day.”— Rufus Wainwright, goodreads.com
“I’m always afraid of opening up when my mind is louder than my heart; afraid of what the monsters will let slip. I want to get the story out, but I keep swallowing my words and they crumble before I can put them down on paper.”— Joshua Greenaway, jgreenaway.tumblr.com
“She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.”— Catherynne M. Valente, amazon.com