quotemadness:

“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them… awakening feelings that gather into great armies.”

— Mark Helprin (via quotemadness)

deeplifequotes:

“Now, every time I witness a strong person, I want to know: What darkness did you conquer in your story? Mountains do not rise without earthquakes.”

— Katherine MacKenett

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Jeanette Winterson

from “Imagination and Reality”, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery

quotemadness:

“The best advice I’ve ever received: ‘no one else knows what they are doing either.”

— Charles Bukowski (via quotemadness)

theliteraryjournals:

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”

— Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere | @theliteraryjournals