Ellen Bass, From “The End”, The Human Line

We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.

Rick Warren

Mary Oliver, "October." Devotions

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket

“The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.”

— Unknown

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.

Madonna Ciccone

“And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.”

— Marianne Williamson

With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Marian Engel, from Notebooks: “Ah, Mon Cahier, čoute”

Text ID: I fade into dreams.

“You can never replace anyone because everyone is made of such beautiful, specific details.”

— Before Sunset (2004), Richard Linklater