No one single instant of it was unendurable. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought of all the instants all lined up and stretching ahead, glittering…"

David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest 

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."

John Constable

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.

“Oh, sure you know,” the photographer said.

“She wants,” said Jay Cee wittily, “to be everything."

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. 

— Paper Towns, John Green

"There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest."

Anais Nin 

"I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?"

Jonathan Safran Foer

With drugs, I think the sort of person that would die from an overdose is gonna die soon enough anyway, because they’ve got that will to destroy what’s left of their life. 

— Peter Doherty

When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.

Barroom eyes shine vacancy, To see her you gotta look hard. 

— For you, Bruce Springsteen

"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

Oscar Wilde

"I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature." - 

Neil Young. 

some things are meant to be broken, imperfect, chaotic. it’s the universe’s way of providing contrast.

The Truth About Forever, Sara Dessen