“I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.”— Curtis Sittenfeld, amazon.com
“It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.”— Bette Midler, Amanda McBroom, open.spotify.com
“You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself.”— Cecelia Ahern, amazon.com
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“You were better to the ones that were worse for you. And worse to the one that was better for you.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.”— Joyce Maynard, amazon.com
“I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.”— Rick Warren, amazon.com
“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.”— Dejan Stojanovic, amazon.com
“It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”— Brandon Stanton, amazon.com