"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can’t take it in all at once."
Audrey Hepburn
"Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you."
Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
"You can’t miss forever.
No matter how close forever feels right now.
You can’t hurt forever.
Even if your heart whispers in your ear and tries to convince you otherwise.
You can’t bleed forever.
Sooner or later, you will either die or live.
Neither of us can do anything for forever.
Because forever passed away, long ago."
"As we grow we realize that we need the wisdom to accept things we don’t understand."
J.Y. Park
"It’s so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there’s this part of me that’s achingly lonely I could die."
Hannah Harrington, Saving June
"Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don’t want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can’t comfortably fit."
Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
"If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely."
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lessons
