“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
”I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
Virginia Woolf
“Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
— David Baldacci, The Camel Club
“There are some feelings you will never find words for; you will learn to name them after the ones who gave them to you.”
— Maza Dohta
“It’s like when someone says, ‘How are you?’ Do you say, ‘Well, my head hurts and I’m lonely and depressed and I’m worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil’? Or do you say, ‘I’m fine’?”
— Sara Shepard, The Visibles
I appreciate anybody who reach out to me becuz I kno ima distant person
“Please don’t, above all, plant me in your heart. I grow too quick.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention..”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it. Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy, always.”
— S.C. Lourie
“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
— Tahereh Mafi
“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”
— Sylvia Plath