“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
“Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her—then don’t let her go.”
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you
“Music is my entrance to a world that uplifts my depressed heart and soul to joy when days are dark and dreary and I feel like I am alone.”
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”
“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.”
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”