I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone - I always have such a crowded head.
―
Charles de Lint, Memory and Dream 

I was twenty. I will let no one say it is the best time of life. Everything threatens a young person with ruin: love, ideas, the loss of family, the entrance into the world of adults. It is hard to learn one’s part in the world.
―
Paul Nizan, Aden Arabie  

People always say that when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that’s not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.
―
“Handle with Care” by Jodi Picoult

And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom.
―
Anaïs Nin, Risk  

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out
Which is worse: The dark inside, or the darkness out.
―
Joseph Brodsky, from “I Sit by the Window” (translated by Howard Moss)

There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.
―
Chuch Palahniuk