“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am h…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I want to speak sunlight but I can only speak thunderstorms that make people run away from me.”— Alexa Evangelista, krowkadile.tumblr.com
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com
“Being abused can seriously affect your ability to distinguish between “not obviously pleased” and “obviously displeased” because abusers go from Neutral to Hostile for absolutely no discernible reason, and eventually you start worrying that everyone is going to be like that and you start feeling thi…”— Anonymous, iwonderwhatsfordinner.tumblr.com
“Hers is a soul so scattered it could never be anything but what it was born to be.”— Eden Arielle Gordon, wordsdance.com
“Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not-writing, as the spirit moved me. It was instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com