"God, why do I have to be a person who yearns so much?"
-P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

"When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them.  You try to keep track of everything in your head.  But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand:  all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.  That's why you can't save it all up like that.

Because by the time you finally see each other, you're catching up only on the big things, because it's too much bother to tell about the little things.  But the little things are what make up life."
-To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

"...they seem to forget that you're a mere mortal: flesh and bone, bruisable and scareable."
-Where She Went by Gayle Forman

"I wonder how I ever thought I was desirable.  But inside, I know.  I used to have sparkle, self-assurance.  I didn't turn green and serious and grave eyed at first."
-The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

"I like people too much or not at all.  I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."
-The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

"After all, artists - especially writers - need more alone time than regular people.  They crave solitude whereas many people fear it.  They resign themselves to financial uncertainty whereas most people do anything can to avoid it.  Moreover, if an artist is lucky, her work becomes her legacy, thus theoretically lessening the burden of producing a child to carry it out."
-Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids by Meghan Daum

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child.  Listen to the don'ts.  Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.  Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...anything can happen, child.  Anything can be."
-Listen to the Mustn'ts by Shel Silverstein