❝ I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

❝ I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

❝

A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you’re still dreaming but it’s slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn’t always say ‘just wondering’ when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars.

Listen, there’s a hell of a good universe next door, let’s go.

❝ She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn’t scream when he took the first bite.

❝ I have noticed that even people who think everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look both ways when they cross the street

❝ It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

❝ When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

❝ I exist in two places,
here and where you are.

❝ We are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

❝ Sometimes you just have to distance yourself from people. If they care, they’ll notice. If they don’t, you know where you stand.

❝ I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

❝ Cunt again? It was odd how men used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued.