January 2012
“Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing...”
– Nicole Krauss
“I am my own heaven and hell.”
– J.C.F. Von Schiller
“You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears?...”
– Alice Hoffman
“I exist here, now. I’m not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely...”
– Yohji Yamamoto, My dear Bomb
“Sometimes at night in bed I dream, dream of all my life could be and all I could...”
– Lucy Sparrow
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality...”
– Walter Anderson
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and...”
– Robert Frost
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”
– Emily Haines
“She remembers when the world was full of wonder - when life was a strand of...”
– Life After God by Douglas Coupland
“Nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
– Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
“I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for...”
– Charles Bukowski
“This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.”
– Lemony Snicket (The Reptile Room)
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...”
– Herman Hesse
“Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the...”
– Dean Koontz, Midnight
“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life....”
– Fr. Alfred D’Souza
“I have been watching my life. It’s right there. I keep scratching at it, trying...”
– Don Draper
“The morning breezes have secrets to tell; don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi
“Maybe that was why she couldn’t cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the...”
– Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)
“..what I really need, what I’m really looking for, is not something I can...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)
“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists...”
– Albert Camus
“That’s the one thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)
“What you seek is seeking you.”
– Rumi
“Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to...”
– The Last Unicorn | Peter S. Beagle
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards...”
– Rumi
“I don’t like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars, and...”
– Osho
“I know I should be sad, and I am, part of me is. But it’s like… it’s like I’m...”
– Donna Hayward (Twin Peaks)
“Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can’t make...”
– Banana Yoshimoto 