“...because once you've got one scar on your face or your heart, its only a matter of time before someone gives you another - and another - until a day doesn't go by when you aren't being bashed senseless, nor a town that you haven't been run out of, and you get to be such a goddamn mess that finally…”— Nick Cave, goodreads.com
“If we keep our heroes at a safe distance, they cannot disappoint us with the banal business of being people. But part of growing up is accepting that everybody is people.”— Aishwarya Subramanyam, huffingtonpost.in
“Once upon a time we were young, our dreams hung like apples waiting to be picked and peeled.”— Shane Koyczan, blog.ted.com
“One of the oddest things about being grown-up is looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”— Patricia Briggs, amazon.com
“I don’t chase people anymore. I learned that I’m here, and I’m important. I’m not going to run after people to prove that I matter.”— Emily Y., facebook.com
“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.”— Banana Yoshimoto, amazon.com
“The most destructive thing I’ve ever done was believe someone else’s opinion of me.”— Teal Blue Jay, facebook.com
“While falling in love is fun, it’s not everything, and it’s not the antidote to an unfulfilled life.”— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com
“I flipped through my identities like a card catalog, selecting the one that fit that day, that hour, that minute. I learned how to disappear.”— Stacy Pershall, amazon.com
“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You get on a train, you disappear. You write your name on the window, you disappear. There are places like this everywhere, places you enter as a young girl from which you never return.”— Louise Glück, amazon.com
“You don't know distance until you've shared your bed with somebody who's falling out of love with you.”— Beau Taplin, twitter.com
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“He’s a beautiful person. He always tells me: ‘We’ve got to find a way to win by losing.’ In the eyes of society, we’ve lost already. Everyone in here is a loser. We can either be angry about it, or we can keep trying to grow.”— Anonymous, humansofnewyork.com