“Be Confused, It’s Where You Begin To Learn New Things. Be Broken, It’s Where You Begin To Heal.

“The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“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,”

“You cannot make someone understand a message they are not ready to receive.”

— Unknown

Shakespeare: won’t you be my sweet Juliet?

Mc: Juliet dies

Shakespeare: my beautiful Desdemona?

Mc: she’s killed by her husband

Shakespeare: Ophelia?

Mc:

Shakespeare: I see your point

“To make the right choices in life you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude - which most people are afraid of because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”

— Deepak Chopra

“At the end of a relationship, it is the one who is not in love that makes the tender speeches.”

— Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

“Sometimes we need someone to simply be there, not to fix anything or do anything in particular. But just to let us feel we are supported and cared about.”

— Unknown

I hope that someday when I'm gone, someone somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her."

-Nicole Lyons

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”

— Toni Morrison, Beloved

“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”

— Lora Mathis