Twenty Three

"…and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything."

-The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

"And suddenly, everything is right. Everything forgiven. Every minute apart and alone, forgotten."
-Ellen Hopkins, Glass

"We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there, together. And that was enough."
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us."

-Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
^horribly depressing...but that book changed how I thought about...everything.

"The air was unusually warm and humid and I wondered if everyone else associated that sensation with childhood, with bare feet and wet grass and fireflies and heat lightning, and repeated entreaties to come in for dinner."

-Losing Julia, Jonathan Hull


"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead."
-Marilyn Monroe

"Do you think I’m wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it’s only noon. You couldn’t be something that hundreds of others are."

-Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer


"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break."
-GK Chesterton

"To live in the world without becoming aware of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books."
-Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

"Ache and the daunting awareness
Of feeling lost. Of loss.
But the knowledge of maybe having something
That I could lose
Comes to me as such a pleasant epiphany,
I could not feel miserable."
- Anon

"My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends- It gives a lovely light."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Impromptu NON-personal thought:
"I believe the word bittersweet was created because of love"
-said by a dear friend of mine, sent via text.
I couldn't resist posting it.