“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.” ~Richard Siken

“The day will happen whether or not you get up.” ~John Ciardi

“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.” ~Dorothy Day

“Jealously is just a map, that’s all it is. If you’re jealous of someone, what it is is “Oh, why aren’t I there?” and then all it is is the point you want to go to on a map, and you’ve just got to fill in the path to get there. That’s all it is, that’s all jealously is. If you think of jealously as “Oh, it means that I am less of a person or I’m wrong or I’m…”, then of course you’re going to get stuck in this dark black pit that you’re not gonna get out of, but if you think “It’s a map, oh…” ~Patton Oswalt