“The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.”
— Augusten Burroughs, This Is How
“I’ve been living alone so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, from Mother Night; “Werner Noth’s Beautiful Blue Vase,”
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
— Henry David Thoreau
“I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
