“My life felt very empty and unreal and I was embarrassed about its thinness, the way one might be embarrassed about a stained or threadbare piece of clothing.”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes…”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“I don't know if I am heading toward heaven or that other, dark place, but I know I have already lived in heaven for fifty years. Thank you, Provincetown.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“Let go when you’re hurting too much. Give up when love isn’t enough. Move on when your gut tells you to. Remember that you have been given this one gorgeous, sparkling, comet-of-a-life and you are free and entitled to choose how to spend it. Don’t wait around for a permission slip, better timing, or…”— Stephanie St.Claire, medium.com
“Oh what we could do with your dress up round your shoulders We could leave all our fears behind”— Mason Jennings, open.spotify.com
“I feel a lot of things. I don’t know anything. I am scared. Sometimes I am filled with joy. I am worried about the world. I am just trying to be a person.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“I was unable to get out of the car at Heaven’s Peak, because the sublime was frightening.”— Prageeta Sharma, academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com
“These are the days of miracle and wonder and don't cry baby don't cry.”— Paul Simon, open.spotify.com
“Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“People like me––gay people, undocumented people, undocumented gay people––are not ‘coming out.’ We’re just letting you in, and, in the process, asking you to find yourselves in us.”— Jose Antonio Vargas, emergingus.com
“Kissing him was like seeing the ocean for the first time. Meeting something so big it made you feel small.”— Cambria Hebert, amazon.com
“The secret, I believe, in writing well about trouble, is choosing carefully the kind of character who will be most troubled by his/her trouble. What is a trial to one person, might be downright relaxing to another. The trouble in your story must push the character to a point where s/he will make a d…”— Aaron Gwyn, glimmertrain.com
“The best filter isn’t BuzzFeed, or The Atlantic, or whatever. The best filter is money. That is how you say “I love you.” This is America. This is a capitalist country. We say “I’m sorry” with money. We say “I love you” with money.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, buzzfeed.com