“I don’t love her any more, either. I don’t know. I do and I don’t. It varies. It fluctuates.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“I can’t tell you exactly what I’m looking for, but I’ll know it when it happens. I want to be breathless and weak, crumpled by the entrance of another person inside my soul.”— Aimee Bender, amazon.com
“The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.”— Becca Fitzpatrick, amazon.com
“At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“We know where we're going But we don't know where we've been And we know what we're knowing But we can't say what we've seen And we're not little children And we know what we want And the future is certain Give us time to work it out.”— David Byrne, open.spotify.com
“Deep in her heart, she wasn’t sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed…normal.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Then I awoke, and knew not whether to throw myself into the sea or to live on and make the best of it.”— Homer, amazon.com
“Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.”— Edouard Manet, edouard-manet.net
“The self is an ocean without a shore. Gazing upon it has no beginning or no end, in this world and the next.”— Ibn Arabi, artinamericamagazine.com
“I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. Probably not even real.”— Mark Z. Danielweski, amazon.com
“In the midst of such uncertainty, I cling not to what I know, but what I feel.”— Heidi Julavits, amazon.com