You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Being with no one is better than being with the wrong one. Sometimes those who fly solo have the strongest wings.

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

When I am completely myself, entirely alone during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

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