“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”— Michelle Williams, elle.com
“And the stars down so close, and sadness and pleasure so close together, really the same thing”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”— Sarah Kay, goodreads.com
“You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.”— Winona Ryder, highlysensitive.org
“Each time we don’t say what we want to say we’re dying. Make a list of how many times you died this week.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”— Lynda Barry, goodreads.com
“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, en.wikiquote.org
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.”— Michael Cunningham, amazon.com
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”— Gail Caldwell, amazon.com
“You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, azquotes.com
“I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had better things to do.”— Brian Andreas, goodreads.com