“The less you say, the more your words will matter.”
—Rae Carson
“The less you say, the more your words will matter.”
—Rae Carson
“It’s just that, as well as love, you also have to know how to kill.”
—Magda Szabó
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
—William Shakespeare
“Oh, darling….You will be good to me, won’t you?…You will, won’t you?…Because we’re going to have a strange life.”
—Ernest Hemingway
“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike.
I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much.
I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break.”
—Marya Hornbacher
“How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.”
—Emily Brontë
“It’s awful not to be loved.
It’s the worst thing in the world…It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”
—John Steinbeck
“The flower bloomed and faded.
The sun rose and sank.
The lover loved and went.
And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
—Virginia Woolf
“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”
—Boris Pasternak
"As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
—C.G. Jung
"I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself.
To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone.”
—Haruki Murakami
“I hope you find someone you can’t live without.
I really do.
And I hope you never have to know what it’s like to have to try and live without them.”
—Kiera Cass
“I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”
—Jack Kerouac
"She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew."
—Shel Silverstein
"She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew."
—Shel Silverstein
“When life sucks, throw yourself into art.”
—Monica Drake
“The untrained mind keeps up a running commentary, labeling everything, judging everything.
Best to ignore that commentary.
Don’t argue or resist, just ignore.
Deprived of attention and interest, this voice gets quieter and quieter and eventually just shuts up.”
—Plato
“I don’t want you to change, […]. I’m not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be.
I’m in love with you.
Right now. Just like this.”
—Colleen Hoover
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