"I may still not know what I want to be when I grow up, but I do know that someday I want to live in a house filled with my books and travel souvenirs. And the walls that aren't covered in bookshelves will be covered with photos of my family and friends. When I leave the house I will be going to a job I love, and I'll return to a person I love. So, that's the dream I'm working on." -Amber Morely
"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." -Jodi Picoult
"When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and your body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant."
-Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
"Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the world 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone." -Paul Johannes Tillich
"Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain
"I don’t sleep. I have a lot of interests and a lot I want to get done so I have gotten into the habit of not getting into my bed. I sit on the couch with my laptop until I fall asleep. I have the computer in a protective case because it often ends up falling to the floor." -
James Franco
"Sometimes, you have to be sad to remind yourself you’re alive. Better than feeling nothing, right?" -Patience, Henry Poole Is Here
"There’s always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you’re happy with the looks you’re born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we’re not happy with what we’re given." -Natalie Portman
"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing." -Bill Cosby
"There is no such thing as the perfect soul mate. If you meet someone and you think they’re perfect, you better run as fast as you can in the other direction, ‘cause your soul mate is the person that pushes your buttons, pisses you off on a regular basis, and makes you face your shit." -
Madonna
On the breakup from his longtime girlfriend China Brezner of three years: "The good actors are all screwed up. They're all in pain. It's a profession of bottom-feeders and heartbroken people. Maybe it was career pressure... Maybe I chose work. Every man has those feelings of escape and survival. I know you shouldn't be that way. I'm trying to understand it and find the answers. I don't have them now. Why did the love of my life and I break up? ...Man, I have no idea. What was that all about? I have no answers to anything. None. Why am I an alcoholic? I haven't a damn clue! What is life about? I don't know." -Shia LaBeouf
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." -Oscar Wilde
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." -Albert Camus
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." -
Ernest Hemingway
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen." -John Steinbeck
"She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time." -The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women." -
Natalie Portman
"I don’t care anymore about the handsome wealthy boys who come gingerly into the living room to take out the girl they thought would look nice in an evening cocktail dress…I said I wanted to go out with them to meet new people. I ask you, what logic is there in that? What guy you would like, would see the depths in a girl outwardly like all the other physical american queenies? So why go places with guys you can’t talk to? You’ll never meet a soul that way - not the sort you want to meet. Better to stay in your garret reading than to go from one party to another. Face it, kid: unless you can be yourself, you won’t stay with anyone for long. You’ve got to be able to talk. That’s tough. But spend your nights learning, so you’ll have something to say. Something the “attractive intelligent man” will want to listen to.” -Sylvia Plath
"‘Sometimes,’ said Julia, ‘I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.’" -
Brideshead Revisite
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"You’re a different human being to everybody you meet." -Chuck Palahniuk
"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say, they think everyone else does too." -The Kite Runner
"Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind." -
Rudyard Kipling
"We are who we are. The sum of the lack we have." -Alan Rickman
"It wasn’t only that you didn’t see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all the others." -Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon 
"She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing." -Sarah Dunn, Secrets to Happiness
"I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me." -Elizabeth Gilbert | 
