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“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside.

Amen."
— Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)”
― Aimee Bender

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.”
― Annie Dillard

“Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets. ”
― Don DeLillo, The Day Room

“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
― Annie Dillard

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

“At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she used to, as soul extension, dumb guttural wonder, a thing that lived outside language in the oldest part of her.”
― Don DeLillo, The Body Artist

“You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Wormwood

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, The Value of X

“I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing
these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections,
finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things.
I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.”
― Ann Brashares

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. ”
― Ann Brashares

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.”
― Ann Brashares

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.”
― Ann Brashares

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.”
― Ann Brashares

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process would experience each one of these at the appropriate times. But adjectives which seem more generally fitting are adjectives such as enriching, exciting, rewarding, challenging, meaningful. This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-fainthearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life. Yet the deeply exciting thing about human beings is that when the individual is inwardly free, he chooses as the good life this process of becoming.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan