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“And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in.”
― Rae Earl, My Mad Fat Diary

“ME LIKE THE MAGNET

Men I like, I repel
Like a magnet do
So if I'm nasty
Then you know
I probably fancy you.

"It's defence," the shrinks would say.
"It's protects against a fall."
It's impenetrable this fence of mine
It's like the Berlin Wall.”
― Rae Earl, My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary

“And that will be on my medical records for ever.
Everyone will always know I’m a nutter. Behavioural problems. I’m just a bloody label…
A label written on a white board in a single room without a radio, in a place where everyone else was at least 20 years older than me. Can’t think about it. It’s anger that goes nowhere.”
― Rae Earl, My Mad Fat Diary

“So eventually I instantly backed down and apologised for NOTHING. She was instantly fine - surprise, surprise.”
― Rae Earl, My Mad Fat Diary

“I think it’s important to hug. It costs nothing and it’s a really lovely way of showing that you care.”
― Stephen Gately

“Oh, rose that blushes with my love
Please help me to compose
The words I wish to speak aloud
To one who'd make me proud
If she would hold her hand in mine
And both our hearts entwine..”
― Stephen Gately, The Tree of Seasons

“The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical

“No day but today.”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

“VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

“Give in to love or live in fear.”
― Jonathan Larson

“I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for. Unafraid to say I Love You.”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

“but i know blue only blue lonely blue without you”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

“She always said how lucky were to be friends... but it was us baby who were the lucky ones”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

“In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day and [we] should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

“Measure your life in love.”
― Jonathan Larson

“How do you know when it's time to let go?”
― Jonathan Larson

“You're weird,' he says.
Despite everythin, I smile. 'You're always saying that, but in fact, you're weird,' I say.
'Yeah, I know. Remember? That's how I can tell you're weird, too.”
― Amanda Maciel, Tease

“Everybody slips up becaues we're not perfect; that's what mercy is for.”
― M. E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

“Remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.”
― Aerosmith

“I don't wanna close my eyes, I don't want to fall asleep cause I miss you and I don't wanna miss a thing.”
― Aerosmith

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.”
― Anthony Rapp, Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical 'Rent'

“On the flight over to Chicago, I thought of a story Mom had once told me from her days as a pediatric nurse.

"There was this little boy I was taking care of," she said "and he was terminally ill,and we all knew it,but he kept hanging on and hanging on. He wouldn't die, it was so sad.
And his parents were always there with him,giving him so much love and support,but he was in so much pain,and it really was,time for him to go.
So finally some of us nurses took his father aside and we told him, 'You have to tell your son it's okay for him to go. You have to give him permission.' And so the father took his son in his arms and he sat with him in a chair and held on to him and told him over and over, that it was okay for him to go,and,well,after a few moments,his son died.”
― Anthony Rapp, Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical 'Rent'

“There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”
― Anthony Rapp

“The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“At least being nuts is being somewhere.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden