I’m not a part. I’m not a member. I’m frozen.
Anne Sexton (Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters)

I am like a stone that lives … locked outside of all that’s real.
Anne Sexton (Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters)

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)

Homsickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or someplace or something, I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing.
Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
—                                                                                                                    William Faulkner

What I really need, what I’m really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It’s nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)

I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don’t ask for it, everyone will forget about me
Elizabeth Wurtzel (More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction)

“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”
—                                                                                                                   Toni Morrison (Jazz)

“You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering  you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you  wrong. You do not deserve love just because you want it. You can only  earn - by practice and careful contemplations - the right to express it  and you have to learn how to accept it.”
—                                                                                                                   Toni Morrison (Paradise)

I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf

Is there no way out of the mind?
Sylvia Plath