“Sometimes You Just Have To Stay Silent Because No Words Can Explain What’s Going On In Your Heart

“I think you are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when you don’t know how to be. If that makes any sense?”

— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Kenrei Mon-In Ukyō No Daibu, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese

“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“But my anxious heart is eating up my body, eating up my nerves, eating up my brain. I feel this poison slowly filling my veins - every particle becoming slowly tainted…. I am never, never calm, never for an instant.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in “ The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield,”

“A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin.”

— John Dos Passos, b. 14 January 1896

“Your truest friends are the ones who stand by you in your darkest moments, because they are willing to brave the shadows with you, and in your greatest moments, because they are not afraid to let you shine.”

— Nicole Yatsonsky

Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.