“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known”— Carson McCullers, carson-mccullers.com
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“We attract to ourselves what we hold inside. Every circumstance, every person, and every situation that we attract and experience is based on what is inside of us. Your life is a reflection of what you hold inside you, and what you hold inside you is always under your control.”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“You forget what it was like. You’d swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away.”— Tana French, amazon.com
“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”— Lynda Barry, amazon.com
“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.”— Colum McCann, amazon.com
“I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working towards what you used to want.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“Someday sounds a lot like the thing people say when they actually mean never.”— Lisa Joy, Daniel T. Thomsen, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com