"There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen
"You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?
And I said,
Where do I put it down?"
Anne Carson
"I take/all that is tender/into my mouth,/like the thunder,/like my cowardice."
"One hears it a lot on airplanes: 'Make sure you have your own mask on, before helping others with theirs.'"
Lemony Snicket, on what is the best life advice
"We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness."
Paullina Simon
"see, you will rise.
and are you less of a woman for this?
no
what is woman?
woman is this–enduring.
listen girl, you will survive this–you will.
but what fool said you had to do it silently?
here is a tip–scream"
Salma Deera
"I'm not scared of being a monster. I'm scared of what comes after, what happens if being a monster isn't enough anymore."
If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."
Mother Teresa
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six and five, and four, and three, and two, and one. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday, you expect to feel eleven, but you don't. You open your eyes and everything's just like yesterday, only it's today...Like some days you might say something stupid, and that's part of you that's still ten. Or maybe some days you need to sit on your mama's lap because you're scared, and that's the part of you that's five. And maybe one day when you're all grown up maybe you will need to cry like as if you are three...Because the way you grow old is like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk."
Sandra Cisneros
