…one day you may realize that you’ve lost the moon while counting the stars.
John O’Callaghan
Memories rose up inside him, and not only personal memories: history took shape, the past spoke the bloody language of fate. And horror, horror, overpowering, the way something is only when it rises up out of forgetting.
Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key
And darling, you should know that I have fantasies about being alone. It’s like love is a lesson, that I can’t learn. I make the same mistakes at each familiar turn.
Death Cab For Cutie
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
John Green, Paper Towns
You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.
Sarah Dessen