Eureka – yu·ray·kaa – a cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

Alan Bennett

You say you love rain but you open your umbrella. You say you love the sun but you find a shadow spot. You say you love wind but you close your windows. This is why I am afraid when you say love me.

William Shakespeare

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone’s so shocked or impressed that you’re baring your soul, while to you it’s nothing, because you know you’ve twenty more layers to go.

Craig Thompson, Carnet de Voyage

The hardest thing to do these days is find real depth inside of people. It feels as if people are proud to be shallow, to have weak connections, and to lack a true burning passion. I want it deep. I want it to untangle parts of my soul that have never been touched. I want to explore people with layers, like onions, like volumes. I want people to teach me things; I want people to allow me to give them new information. I need depth, where is it?

Sylvester McNutt Ⅲ

I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.

Lora Mathis, If There’s A Way Out I’ll Take It

What surprises me most about humankind is that we get bored with our childhood, rush to grow up and then long to be children again. That we lose our health to make money and then lose our money to restore our health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, we forget the present, such that we live in neither the present nor the future. That we live as if we’ll never die and die as though we’ve never lived.

Anais Nin

People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. — Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Sometimes I want to scream but screaming is not in my nature, so I shut down and sleep for days and days and days until I wake up and feel completely silenced.

Juansen Dizon, Flashbacks

And you tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… you can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if someone wants to leave, then let them leave. You are terrifying and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

Warsan Shire

For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage, or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink, or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Andy Rooney