Amanda Hendrickson

“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.”
― Andy Rooney