“Sometimes you look back at who you used to be and don’t really recognize that person. Sometimes you look in the mirror and have a hard time reconciling the new face with your old memories.”— Marisa Donnelly, medium.com
“If you are ethereal by nature, you will feel it every day of your life. It takes great courage to dwell in this physical form.”— Sakura Rain, twitter.com
“there’s nothing wrong with admitting you were once toxic. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you made a couple people feel like shit. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you fucked up and were horribly arrogant and parasitic. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you did anyone wrong, especially i…”— harzburgite, taashasayword.tumblr.com
“Surprise people to counter any fixed image they may have of you.”— Dorie Clark, well.blogs.nytimes.com
“People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are — have always been — heroic in the really quiet ways.”— Jack Thorne, Ginny Weasley, amazon.com
“When someone called me a hero, I wanted to prove them right. When someone called me a devil, I wanted to prove them wrong. It took a lot of self-examination to realize that I was neither. There is a fullness to a person that is gigantic and nuanced and indefinable. It was equally impossible to be a…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“I am above and beyond the limits of your vocabulary, the shortness of your sight.”— James Helenski, okrun.tumblr.com
“You get on a train, you disappear. You write your name on the window, you disappear. There are places like this everywhere, places you enter as a young girl from which you never return.”— Louise Glück, amazon.com
“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com
“There are an infinite number of methods to attain knowledge; finding the right method is up to the individual.”— Kenya Hara, amazon.com
“But even after admitting this — and I have, countless times, in just about every act I've committed — and coming face-to-face with these truths, there is no catharsis. I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to t…”— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.com