“Most days I couldn’t even pinpoint how I felt. Sometimes sad, sometimes relieved, sometimes confused, sometimes misunderstood. And a lot of times angry.”— Jennifer Brown
“…Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final…”— Rainer Maria Rilke
“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”— Curtis Sittenfeld
“It’s just that I’ve learned that somebody’s appearance doesn’t always match what’s going on inside him. You can’t look at a guy’s face and see his demons.”— Diane Chamberlain
“Sometimes we don’t get second chances. Sometimes things just end.”— Colleen Hoover
“Let me tell you a truth… No matter what choice you make, it doesn’t define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there’s ever a choice you’ve made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice.”— Jonathan Maberry
“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they’ll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”— Colleen Hoover
“She lay in the dark and knew everything.”—
Ian McEwan
“But poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.”— Adrienne Rich
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”— Christopher Morley
“I am here but I am not yours.”—
Sarah Winman
“Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.”— Holly Black
“I like you; your eyes are full of language.”— Anne Sexton
“I am sorry someone loved you badly, and that they made you feel like you take up more space than you deserve. I am sorry they abandoned you when you need them the most and it has made you believe that love is an awful thing that hurts.”—
Nikita Gill
“I know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.”— Jennifer Echols