“You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only thing that make life bearable.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“Maybe all that wine is an Instagram filter for our own lives, so we don’t see how sallow and cracked they’ve become.”— Kristi Coulter, vox.com
“Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.”— Mary Oliver, facebook.com
“There’s not a real way to live this Just remember stay relentless Don’t stop running until it’s finished It’s up to you, the rest is unwritten.”— Beyoncé, youtube.com
“The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.”— Jose Saramago, amazon.com
“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”— William Wordsworth, amazon.com
“Literature grants us few of the consolations and none of the vatic promises of religion, but is our religion nonetheless.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“That, by way of a book, we have the ability to transcend what is immediate, what is merely personal, and to enter a consciousness not known to us, in some cases distinctly alien.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“Consider the phenomenon of reading, that most mysterious of acts. It is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin; another’s voice; another’s soul.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“There are pleasures in reading so startling, so intense, they shade into pain. The realization that one’s life has been irrevocably altered by . . . can it be mere words? Print on a page? The most life-rending discoveries involve what has in fact never been thought, never given form, until another’s…”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied—or, for that matter, awarded — because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some ele…”— Kevin Brockmeier, amazon.com
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if eve…”— Eve Ensler, amazon.com
“I want control over my own life and money. Being single means I don’t have to explain what I buy or how I spend my time.”— Brittany Wong, huffingtonpost.com
“Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you’re all gonna die and then you’re gonna be dead for way longer than you’re alive. Like that’s mostly what you’re ever gonna be. You’re just dead people that didn’t die yet.”— Louis CK, amazon.com