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  • #1
    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

  • #2
    Douglas Coupland
    “In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.”
    Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

  • #3
    Douglas Coupland
    “I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.”
    Douglas Coupland

  • #4
    Nick Hornby
    “It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
    Nick Hornby

  • #5
    “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide.”
    Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

  • #6
    David Levithan
    “She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom.”
    David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

  • #7
    George Harrison
    “It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
    George Harrison

  • #8
    “I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”
    Paul McCartney

  • #9
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Asleep by the Smiths
    Vapour Trail by Ride
    Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel
    A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
    Dear Prudence by the Beatles
    Gypsy by Suzanne Vega
    Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues
    Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins
    Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!)
    MLK by U2
    Blackbird by the Beatles
    Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
    Asleep by the Smiths (again!)

    -Charlie's mixtape”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #10
    “When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
    speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
    And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,
    speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

    Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.
    Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

    And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,
    there will be an answer, let it be.
    For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,
    there will be an answer. let it be.

    Let it be, let it be, .....

    And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,
    shine until tomorrow, let it be.
    I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,
    speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

    Let it be, let it be, .....”
    Paul McCartney

  • #11
    George Harrison
    “It's all in the mind.”
    George Harrison

  • #12
    George Harrison
    “When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”
    George Harrison

  • #13
    D.H. Lawrence
    “Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
    D.H. Lawrence

  • #14
    David Levithan
    “Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.”
    David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

  • #15
    Warsan Shire
    “give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #16
    Warsan Shire
    “you are a horse running alone
    and he tries to tame you
    compares you to an impossible highway
    to a burning house
    says you are blinding him
    that he could never leave you
    forget you
    want anything but you
    you dizzy him, you are unbearable
    every woman before or after you
    is doused in your name
    you fill his mouth
    his teeth ache with memory of taste
    his body just a long shadow seeking yours
    but you are always too intense
    frightening in the way you want him
    unashamed and sacrificial
    he tells you that no man can live up to the one who
    lives in your head
    and you tried to change didn't you?
    closed your mouth more
    tried to be softer
    prettier
    less volatile, less awake
    but even when sleeping you could feel
    him travelling away from you in his dreams
    so what did you want to do love
    split his head open?
    you can't make homes out of human beings
    someone should have already told you that
    and if he wants to leave
    then let him leave
    you are terrifying
    and strange and beautiful
    something not everyone knows how to love.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #17
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

  • #18
    Jeanette Winterson
    “And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and typeset, I am astonished. Perhaps the event has an unassailable truth. God saw it. God knows. But I am not God. And so when someone tells me what they heard or saw, I believe them, and I believe their friend who also saw, but not in the same way, and I can put these accounts together and I will not have a seamless wonder but a sandwich laced with mustard of my own.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

  • #19
    David Levithan
    “I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.”
    David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

  • #20
    David Levithan
    “Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
    David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

  • #21
    David Levithan
    “Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it. ”
    David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

  • #22
    David Levithan
    “I'm not good at relationships
    I always manage to find the flaws
    sometimes in others
    but mostly my own.
    I foretell the ending
    then go and create the cause
    save myself
    and end up alone”
    David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

  • #23
    David Levithan
    “I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.”
    David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

  • #24
    David Levithan
    “you say you do not see it.
    you say I am too hard on myself.

    but I have lived with myself for too many years.
    I know exactly how hard I am.”
    David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

  • #25
    David Levithan
    “I should talk to him
    I know I should talk to him.
    But I do not talk to him.
    I watch after him from afar
    and love him.”
    David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

  • #26
    Paulo Coelho
    “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
    Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

  • #27
    Paulo Coelho
    “If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
    Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

  • #28
    Paulo Coelho
    “Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.”
    Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

  • #29
    Paulo Coelho
    “We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”
    Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

  • #30
    Mindy Kaling
    “Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.”
    Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?



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