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“One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That is the only answer there ever is.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“My favorite strategy is to feign inferiority and encourage my enemy’s arrogance.”
― Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive

“But faith doesn’t mean that to me anymore. Now it means someone seeing something in you that you don’t, and not giving up until you see it too.”
― Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive

“You only scream when you’re finally safe.”
― Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive

“Moving on doesn’t mean you don’t talk about it. Or hurt about it. It’s always going to hurt,”
― Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive

“I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.”
― Carl R. Rogers, A Way of Being

“I find it very satisfying when I can be real, when I can be close to whatever it is that is going on within me. I like it when I can listen to myself. To really know what I am experiencing in the moment is by no means an easy thing, but I feel somewhat encouraged because I think that over the years I have been improving at it.”
― Carl R. Rogers, A Way Of Being

“I like to think of myself as a quiet revolutionary.”
― Carl R. Rogers, A Way of Being

“It is so obvious when a person is not hiding behind a facade but is speaking from deep within himself.”
― Carl R. Rogers, A Way Of Being

“Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Lying on the Couch

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive”
― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

“...may I never lose that terror that keeps me brave”
― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

“[…] your smile has been to war”
― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.”
― Clarice Lispector

“And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

“Something broke in me and left me with a nerve split in two. In the beginning the extremities linked to the cut hurt me so badly that I paled in pain and perplexity. However the split places gradually scarred over. Until coldly, I no longer hurt. I changed, without planning to. I used to look at you from my inside outward and from the inside of you, which because of love, I could guess. After the scarring I started to look at you from the outside in. And also to see myself from the outside in: I had transformed myself into a heap of facts and actions whose only root was in the domain of logic. At first I couldn't associate me with myself. Where am I? I wondered. And the one who answered was a stranger who told me coldly and categorically: you are yourself.”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“To think is an act. To feel is a fact.”
― Clarice Lispector

“How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“She felt the phrase “demand her rights” had lain inside her forever, waiting.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“Yes, she felt a perfect animal inside her. The thought of one day setting this animal loose disgusted her. Perhaps for fear of lack of aesthetic. Or dreading a revelation… No, no, she repeated, you mustn’t be afraid to create.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.”
― Louise Gluck, It Is Daylight

“The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see.”
― Louise Glück, Vita Nova: Winner of the Nobel Prize