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“You ought to realize, you take up very little space in the world as a whole—your body, that is; in reason, however, you yield to no one, not even to the gods, because reason is not measured in size but sense. So why not care for that side of you, where you and the gods are equals?”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

“Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
― Paul Boese

“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I wasn't even looking for him, so why do I feel found?”
― Emery Lord, The Names They Gave Us

“I would crawl to wherever you were, emotionally, so that you wouldn't feel alone.”
― Emery Lord, The Names They Gave Us

“Understanding doesn't make me feel any less lied to.”
― Emery Lord, The Names They Gave Us

“It's enough to make you believe. Maybe not in symbols; maybe not in gods. But certainly in people.”
― Emery Lord, The Names They Gave Us

“And that's why I don't get to cry, I guess. Because they do. Because we're older but we're not the grown-ups who seem too far away to understand. I tuck that thought inside me, warm and small like balled hands inside hoodie pockets. Beneath the beech trees and sugar maples, feet crunching against dead leaves, I hope for strength. Because as much as I want to be the one crying, I want to be the kind of person someone can hold onto.”
― Emery Lord, The Names They Gave Us

“When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Again and again he told me I wasn't myself. But he was wrong. I was the same me I'd always been. I'd just stopped trying to glow in the dark for him, or anyone else.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I thought - think it's brave to believe in love. I mean, the lasting kind. To try for that, even knowing it can hurt you.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.”
― Ernest Bramah

“Et qu'est-ce que je vais devenir si tu ne m'aimes pas comme j'ai besoin que tu m'aimes ?”
― Albert Camus, Correspondance

“Are not flowers the stars of the earth?”
― Clara Lucas Balfour

“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden