Charissa Gates

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
― Mark Twain

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
― Mother Theresa of Calcutta

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel García Márquez