“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you.”— Mark Lawrence, amazon.com
“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise.”— Gwendolyn Brooks, amazon.com
“I am the whole world of my accumulated emotional experience; vast areas of which probably remain unexplored.”— George Lamming, amazon.com
“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history, is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“All the hardest, coldest people you meet, were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“None of us understand what we’re doing but we do beautiful things anyway.”— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com
“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”— Barry H. Gillespie, goodreads.com
“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”— J. K. Rowling, harvardmagazine.com
“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”— Henry Miller, goodreads.com
“Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions.”— Salman Rushdie, amazon.com
“As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning.”— S. J. Watson, amazon.com
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us…Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads- at least that’s where I imagine it- there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the st…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Time weighs down on you like an old ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there – to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Sometimes she hides in moments I wish I had.”— Noah A. Nemley on Muses (via LEGENDMEDIA), quotemadness.com
“Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.”— Robert Crais, articles.sun-sentinel.com
“I want to feel all there is to feel, he though. Let me feel tired now. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive. I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com