“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”

— George R.R. Martin

“As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it’s an innately feminine trait. We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases.”

— Tori Amos

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“Every star may be a sun to someone.”

— Carl Sagan

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”

— Hafiz

“Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand without you even speaking a word.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

—  Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.”

— Allen Ginsberg

“Don’t take anything personally. Nothings others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz

“You think you’re special? You’re not. Everyones the same, everyone lies, everyone hides things. No one makes it through this life being completely honest.”

— Izaya Orihar

“Destruction can be beautiful to some people. Don’t ask me why. It just is. And if they can’t find anything to destroy, they destroy themselves.”

— John Knowles

“If you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you — you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.”

— C.S. Lewis