“I Learned The Hard Way That I Cannot Always Count On Others To Respect My Feelings - Even If I Respect

“A man can’t love you because you haven’t read as many books as he has? He can’t love you because you don’t speak French or because you don’t go to operas? You’re telling me we have to fall in love with people who are just like us?”

— Billie Letts

“There are persons who honestly do not see the use of books in the home, either for information — have they not radio and even television? — or for decoration — is there not the wallpaper?”

—

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American writer

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

“It’s okay if I’m not your favorite chapter you have written, but I hope you sometimes smile when you flip back to the pages I was still apart of.”

— Unknown

“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

humans are obsessed with escapism - through movies, books, music, art, daydreams. our souls really weren’t made for this world.

“Beware of the doctor, whose wife sells cemetery plots, whose brother owns a granite quarry, and whose father deals in shovels.”

— Unknown

“Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone.”

— Vicktor Alexander

“When I met you, flowers started growing in the darkest parts of my mind.”

— Unkown