“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I’ve ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very la…”— Macaulay Culkin, celebriot.com
“A lot of people who are artists don’t understand it themselves. Especially the young ones. They feel different, but they don’t know what it is. They feel more. Everything hurts. Everything. They’re super sensitive. They see things that other people don’t see.”— Rick Rubin, esquire.com
“Love isn’t something you can legislate. Love is more than charts and graphs and matching interests. Love is messy and complicated and it is a mistake to deny its random magic.”— Amy Engel, amazon.com
“You could never recognize the kindness in that girl, the depth of her needs, how desperately she wanted to belong.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“Poetry springs from something deeper; it’s beyond intelligence. It may not even be linked with wisdom. It’s a thing of its own; it has a nature of its own. Undefinable.”— Jorge Luis Borges, theparisreview.org
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone—I always have such a crowded…”— Charles de Lint, amazon.com
“Love isn’t something you can legislate. Love is more than charts and graphs and matching interests. Love is messy and complicated and it is a mistake to deny its random magic.”— Amy Engel, amazon.com
“There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood… And understanding someone else.”— Brad Meltzer, amazon.com
“I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that’s why she always struggled… And I think that’s why she also struggled with love. She couldn’t touch it.…”— Carrie Ryan, amazon.com