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“I want to read and write and be very quiet.”

- Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

“It's so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

- John Green; Paper Towns

The most beautiful thing about being human is there are always others who feel the same as you.

—Bridgett Devoue

"By the way, do you know the joys of being alone, walking alone, lying in the sun alone?"

- Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

"The itch to ask whether I'm still loved; and the itch to say, I love you, half-fearing that the other has forgotten, since the last time I said it."

- Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh

"if you love me, you don't love me in a way understand."

—Richard Siken

I've become passive. I don't invent, I don't yearn. I manage, I cope.

—Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

I have so much love in me that I would like to cry

—Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

If it was a piece of paper, I would tear it. If it was a bottle, I would break it. If it was a wall, I would tear it down- but it is my heart.

-Mahmoud Darwish

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

~Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

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