Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“Continue to share your heart with people even if it’s broken.”

— Amy Poehler

“I always look well when I’m near death.”

— Marguerite Gautier

Stéphane Mallarmé, from Collected Poems and Other Verse; “The Nurse and Herodias,” (x)

Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

[Text ID: “I never fought back, I learned how to cry silently, I bore my sins.”]

“But every time I try to move on, you’re right there.”

— Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

Unknown

Anaïs Nin, from the short story “Elena”, Delta of Venus (published posthumously in 1977)

Crazy woman, crazy woman

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do. I learned to suspect that everyone is capable of living a lie. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

Lynn Barber