“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.”
— Ann Patchett
“Educate yourself. When a question about a certain topic pops up, google it. Watch movies and documentaries. When something sparks your interest, read about it. Read read read. Study, learn, stimulate your brain. Don’t just rely on the school system, educate that beautiful mind of yours.”
— Unknown
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some storied don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
— Gilder Radner
“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
— Victor Hugo
“And for some reason, I always felt al little more when I would hear you laugh.”
— R.M. Drake
“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.”
— J.K. Rowling
“I once told her I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
— Sysanna Kaysen
When Oscar Wilde said "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation" and Jorge Luis Borges said "I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited."
