Gretchen Mercado

“Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Even dogs know how important it is to hear somebody else breathing.”
― Benjamin DeHaven, Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.

("New York Blues")”
― Cornell Woolrich, Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich