“Loneliness doesn't make it to my emotional core anymore. It's no longer disturbing. It's a little like... hunger.”— John Mayer, twitter.com
“I really hate romanticizing and fetishizing sadness. I think the internet does an excellent job of doing it and it really bothers me because of how much time I’ve spent swallowing all of mine. It’s like how wearing glasses is cool now, but when I was growing up everyone was, like, waiting for me to…”— Katie Mather, thoughtcatalog.com
“Mainstream publishing is a Rube Goldberg machine of perverse economic incentives, in which large numbers of mostly idiotic self-help guides, diet books, and airport thrillers subsidize an ever-shrinking number of mostly money-losing literary novels and books of poetry.”— Michael Bourne, themillions.com
“I have to tell you that the dream is real, motherfucker. The dream is real and it’s worth it. Life is not long and boring, it’s short and exciting, and sex with someone who you love like crazy does not get worse and worse, it gets better and better. Knowing that someone is on your side — really, tru…”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“Some people ditch friends and lovers because it’s easier to get new ones than to resolve conflicts with the old ones, particularly if resolving a conflict requires one to admit error or practice mercy. I’m describing an asshole. But what if the asshole thinks he’s ditching an asshole?”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“You don't have to save the world. You just have to be here and you're doing a wonderful job.”— Mallory Whitten, amazon.com
“Don't be impressed by: money, power, looks, title, network. Be impressed by: character, kindness, generosity, humility, passion.”— Vala Afshar, twitter.com
“I will give you an idea that nobody has heard about yet. The southern border. Lots of sun, lots of heat. We are thinking about building a wall as a solar wall. So it creates energy. And pays for itself. Think of it, the higher it goes, the more valuable it is. Pretty good imagination, right? My idea…”— Donald Trump, au.news.yahoo.com
“Before the Internet, you could move to a new state and no one at school would know anything about you.”— Emma Rathbone, newyorker.com
“Before the Internet, you could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do and no one would ever know you had done it unless you told them.”— Emma Rathbone, newyorker.com
“I am not cold. I wasn't ever cold. My warmth was hidden far away from anything that could bring hurt because I knew I didn't have the inner scaffolding to endure any more hurt in those protected places.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“What I've learned in my life is if someone is acting badly, they're in pain. It's a really simple rule, they're either scared or in pain.”— Sebastian Junger, youtube.com
“We are all of us like that boy sometimes. I mean we all carry something inside us that can be rejected; that can look silver in the light. You can deny it, or try and throw it in the garbage by all means. You can despise it so much you drink yourself halfway to death. At the end of the day, though,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It's easier to feel the sunlight without them, she said.”— Brian Andreas, amazon.com
“Nostalgia is a dirty liar that insists things were better than they seemed.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“Peak performance and output will result when everyone strives for a level of achievement beyond their immediate grasp, even if they'll fail half the time.”— Abi Noda, abinoda.com
“I sense in some small part of myself how pleasurable it might be to let alcohol unhinge you, to take you down into an unreachable, sunken place, where sounds are very muted.”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com