"I have hated the words
and I have loved them
and I hope
I have made them right."
-Marcus Zusak

"Write hard and clear 
about what hurts."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Kiss me a paragraph
and I'll reply with a novel."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The saddest thing 
in the world is when you
realize that people will
never understand 
you-
I have always held
other people's 
sorrow in my bones
until it became
my own 
and my friends think
I am crazy."
-Christopher Poindexter

"We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Warm me 
like sunlight
and soothe me 
like rain. 
Burn me 
with passion 
and steal away 
the pain."
-Tyler Knott Gregson

"...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved-
I wish you the beauty of storms..."
-John Geddes

"And the rest 
is rust 
and stardust."
-Nabokov