I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm.

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

“Come closer my love, press yourself up against me, and stay forever.”

“I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you’re past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.” - Douglas Coupland, Eleanor Rigby

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“…do you sometimes long to escape?” - Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

“Silence is so freaking loud.” - Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina