1. "I’m terrified that I can’t fix this. That this is just who I am."
--Olivia Dunham, Fringe
2. "What are you worth if no one's looking? How do you know you're even there? Back to the mirror you go, then, looking for something other than bones, other than the shadow of death at your back. It takes a long time to learn how to see."
--Marya Hornbacher
3. "There is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there."
--Bret Easton Ellis
4. Power said to the world,
"You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, "I am thine."
The world gave it freedom of her house.
-Rabindranath Tagore
5. "Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."
--W.S. Merwin
6. " "You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."
--J. K. Rowling
7. "Time sets its claw in us all, my lord, sooner or later. We are none of us that which we were."
--Peter S. Beagle
8. "Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases."
--Haruki Murakami
9. "Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you."
--Haruki Murakami
10. "When the mob and the press and the whole world tells you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world-“No. You move.”
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537
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