"It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means."
Cheryl Strayed
"Life is a mystery to be experienced, not solved."
Anonymous
"Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks."
Gina Greenlee
"Cole, for Christ's sake, will you stop staring at me like I'm beefcake of the month?"
Simon Holt
"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."
Jimi Hendrix
"No.’ Dorren shifted onto his knees, leaning towards her. ‘This is just the beginning, you’ll see. You are his weakness and you will ruin everything."
Natalie Crown
"I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn."
Sorin Cerin
"How ridiculous that water ran out of your eyes when your heart hurt. Tragic heroines in books tended to be amazingly beautiful. Not a word about swollen eyes or a red nose. 'Crying always gives me a red nose,' thought Elinor. 'I expect that's why I'll never be in any book."
Cornelia Funke
"So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen."
Lorrie Moore
"Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it."
Alice Hoffman
"A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift."
Marcel Proust
"Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances?"
Anonymous
"There’s a little angel on one of my shoulders saying that this is a wicked thing to do. Then there’s a little devil on my other shoulder, and she looks a lot like you."
Christina Harlin
"If we can say no to all our worries, nothing can stop our greatness in life."
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