People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. ― Emma Donoghue

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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

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To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole. ― Rupi Kaur

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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

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As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class. - Patrick Stump

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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ― Rumi

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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. ― Chuck Palahniuk

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