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“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”
― Deborah Curtis, Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
― Anthony Trollope

“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone.”
― Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”
― Sherman Alexie, Flight

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
― Thea Dorn

“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”
― Adrienne Rich

“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”
― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

“Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Ice cream is happiness condensed.”
― Jessie Lane Adams

“I'll share my life with you. But, not my doughnuts.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

“My life has always been like a change jar. It’s full, then it’s empty, then it’s full again, then it’s empty again.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”
― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

“Maybe people like us can’t be happy. Maybe we’re too damaged and the only thing we can do is to learn how to hate ourselves a little less.”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon

“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
― Carl Sagan

“To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”
― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister