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Takuboku Ishikawa, tr. by Tamae K. Prindle, from The Selected Poems; “A Love Song to Myself,”

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“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”

— Neil Gaiman

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F. Scott Fitzgerald / This Side of Paradise

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“People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don’t reach my lips.”

— Gillian Flynn

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“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“Sometimes all you have to do is forget what you feel and remember what you deserve.”

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“If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.”

— Elif Shafak

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“For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen; a gaseous nebula must collapse. So collapse. Crumble. This is not your destruction. This is your birth.”

— Zoe Skylar

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“Some words stay in your head long after they’re spoken.”

— Robin Roe; A List of Cages

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“I plan to plunge whole-heartedly into the spring,”

— Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals,”