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  • #1
    Nina LaCour
    “I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
    Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

  • #2
    Nina LaCour
    “I wish you more happiness than can fit in a person.”
    Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

  • #3
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #4
    Phoebe Gloeckner
    “You have to live simply to survive happily.”
    Phoebe Gloeckner, The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures

  • #5
    Elana K. Arnold
    “At last Emory turned to leave, well pleased, and then a thought flashed through Ama’s mind, a realization that chilled her even more deeply than the rain –
    This is how he likes me best… when I am in need of rescue.
    Elana K. Arnold, Damsel

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “thus with a kiss I die”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #8
    Tony Kushner
    “I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die”
    Tony Kushner, Angels in America

  • #9
    William Shakespeare
    “O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #10
    William Shakespeare
    “I defy you, stars.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #11
    Leslye Walton
    “Love makes us such fools.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
    tags: love

  • #12
    Sophocles
    “What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.”
    Sophocles, Electra

  • #13
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
    I am not a muse.
    I am the somebody.
    End of fucking story.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

  • #14
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White

  • #15
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “What’s the difference between being dead and having a boyfriend? Death sticks around.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #17
    Sylvia Plath
    “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #18
    “Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.”
    Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death

  • #19
    Naomi Novik
    “A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp.”
    Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

  • #20
    Naomi Novik
    “And more to the point, I was reasonably certain he wasn’t going to try and devour my soul. My expectations for a husband had lowered.”
    Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

  • #21
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

  • #22
    Mindy McGinnis
    “But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.”
    Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

  • #23
    Mindy McGinnis
    “You see it in all animals - the female of the species is more deadly than the male.'

    'Except humans.”
    Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

  • #24
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

  • #25
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".”
    Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

  • #26
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Men die. It's practically what they're for.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

  • #27
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

  • #28
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

  • #29
    Anne Sexton
    “O starry night, This is how I want to die”
    Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

  • #30
    Anne Sexton
    “It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
    Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems



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