“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don’t work.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“I’ve reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”— Frank Herbert, amazon.com
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“...you will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.”— Christopher Pike, amazon.com
“...life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: 'You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.'”— Madeleine L’Engle, amazon.com
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”— Wilt Chamberlain, amazon.com
“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t…If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”— Nikki Giovanni, tor.com
“Wisdom can’t be taught and by the same token can’t be learned. Instead, it’s the kind of knowledge you become.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.”— Iggy Pop, rollingstone.com
“The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, ‘It’s okay.’ It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s okay to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.”— Hayley Williams, huffingtonpost.com
“Lack of love. Sleep, then nightmare. Paper everywhere. Trivial bits of paper. Nothing ever done. Sure, sure, sure. Today I will walk in the sun. I will simply walk in the sun.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com