“But my heart isn’t simple or straightforward. It’s a complicated mess of wants and needs…soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.”— Tess Sharpe, amazon.com
“Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.com
“Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“I’m very perfectionistic and very lazy, which is a terrible combination.”— Robert Stone (via QUOTEMADNESS), quotemadness.com
“As simple as it sounds, I think understanding who you are–and who you are not–is not the most important thing of all Important Things.”— David Arnold, amazon.com
“My desire and my need are different — I hardly know how to say it or explain it.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I haven’t changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.”— Angela Carter, amazon.com
“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”— Heath L. Buckmaster, amazon.com
“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”— Alice Sebold, amazon.com
“I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.”— Henri Barbusse, amazon.com
“It’s a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don’t know the answer. I don’t know what I’d do, except run away.”— Alexander Masters, quotefancy.com
“You know I’m old in some ways-in others-well, I’m just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I hardly know myself. Do not expect me to know who I ought to be in years to come.”— David Jones, story-dj.tumblr.com