what makes you alive

QUOTES

1.      “Keep reminding to yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that lead to everything.” –Andre Breton

2.      “If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.” –Jean Paul Sartre

3.      “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” –William Wordsworth

4.      “We’re not anything. I just want the whole thing to be over. So, I can go back to my normal life.” –Nicholas Spark, A Walk to Remember

5.      The time-sweepers are the people who sweep up all the time that is lost and wasted. –Ursula Wills-Jones, The Time-Sweepers

6.      “…And I watered it in fears,

Night and morning with my tears…” –William Blake, A Poison Tree

7.      “Best day of my life hasn’t happened yet. But I know it. I see it every day…” –John Green, Looking for Alaska

8.      “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” –Flannery O’Connor

9.      “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I’m both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure it out how that could be.” –Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being A Wallflower

10.  “…of the wide world, dreaming things to come.” –William Shakespeare, Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul

11.  I used to lie under the apple-trees in the afternoons, dreamily reading some old book…” –Richard Len Gallienne, The Haunted Orchard

12.  “I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.” –Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

13.  “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” –John Green, Looking for Alaska

14.  “We didn't hurt anybody, God. Things are only bad when they hurt people. We didn't hurt one single soul; You know that.” –Dorothy Parker, A Telephone Call