“Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.”— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com
“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.’”— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com
“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 took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise…”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“Employers sense in me a denial of their values, they fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century which I loathe.’”— John Kennedy Toole, amazon.com
“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”— John Kennedy Toole, amazon.com
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com