"I heard somebody define heaven once,” she said, looking at Pearl, “as a place where, when you get there, all the dogs you ever loved run to greet you."
"I automatically assume people won’t like me, so I don’t talk to them unless they approach me first. I can’t become a part of a crowd because I can’t get past that feeling that I don’t belong."
- Stephanie Kuehnert, Ballads of Suburbia
"I do this thing where I hide parts of myself that I have decided the other person won’t like. Not even on purpose…more under the pretense of ‘how can I be the most perfect version of myself for this person?’ and then I end up losing all the things about me that the person loved to begin with."
- Crystal
"I mean, the people I have loved in my life have never been easy to love. I’m not used to normal. I’m used to disaster. I don’t know, as messed up as he is, he’s also sort of exciting, sort of a challenge. I’m accustomed to working for love."
- Augusten Burroughs
"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind."
- Caroline Myss
"All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living."
- Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
"I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong."
"No amount of physical beauty will ever be as valuable as a beautiful heart."
"I never change, I simply become more myself."
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it."
