Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― douglas adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

न गुल-ए-नग़्मा हूँ न पर्दा-ए-साज़
मैं हूँ अपनी शिकस्त की आवाज़

Manto (2018) • Nandita Das

Be a little kinder than you have to.

E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.


Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.


André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude