1013 – “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with, people may seem like such a simple obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”

-Thomas Moore [Attributed]

937 – “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

-C S Lewis

872 – “I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

–Olivia Wilde

631 – “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”

–Miles Halter in John Green’s Looking for Alaska

387 – “Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.”

–Alphonse Karr

228 – “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”

–Joyce Carol Oates [Attributed]