“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”— J. D. Salinger, genius.com
“We all deal with fear of loneliness. But I think this fear dies a natural death when it reveals itself as universal. All living creatures are meant to be entwined, even plants, even the small particles in dust. We spend though our entire lives learning the natural skill that society lets us forget:…”— Ioana Cristina Casapu, ioanacasapu.com
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care.…”— Jane Smiley, amazon.com
“Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”— Miriam Toews, amazon.com
“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.”— Katie McGarry, amazon.com
“Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years.”— Muriel Spark, amazon.com
“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to li…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“'When did you become so weak?’ I don’t know. I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com