“When you start to live outside yourself, it’s all dangerous.”
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“It’s weird to feel someone’s attention on you that way, like you’re the only thing in the world they’re listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking...”
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from...”
“Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.”
“You say that love goes anywhere. In your darkest time, it’s just enough to know it’s there. When you go, I’ll let you be. But you’re killing everything in me.”
“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up.”
“Above the green plateau there is always grief,
which, inspired, becomes the breath of life.”
“I am unattached; My heart is very quiet. The world is a curtain.”
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
— Oscar Wilde