PROMPTS:

1. "Before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe." - Andrea Gibson

2. "I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible and when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people" - tumblr

3. "I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time." - Charles Bukowski, Screams From the Balcony

4. "She's never where she is. She's only inside her head." - Janet Fitch, White Oleander

5. "I'm alone in a body that can't love me." - Margaret Gibson, from "The Waiting"

6. "I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me." - Tahere Mafi

7. "So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me." - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

8. "Hell is loving you in my sleep and waking up alone" - tumblr

9. "I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process" - Vincent van Gogh

10. When did she lose her wonder? When did she start exisiting and quit living? - Denise Daisy, Haytham

11. "And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you." - the chaos of stars

12. That years of love have been forgot in the hatred of a minute... - Edgar Allan Poe

13. "I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

14. Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness - Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

15. "My life used to be full of everything," I said. "Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

16. "Making love with you is like drinking sea water. The more I drink the thirstier I become, until nothing can slake my thirst but to drink the entire sea." - Kenneth Rexroth

17. "Your mind is the scene of the crime." - Inception

18. "Sometimes, I feel like ripping apart my skin, and searching for a reason for why I feel this empty. Maybe my veins are tangled, or something is lodged in my ribcage. Because it feels like something inside of me is missing or broken" - tumblr

19. when i die don't dare come to my grave and tell me you love me. because those words were the only thing i would have need to stay - tumblr

20. "How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is not going back? There are some things that time cannot mend." - J.R.R. Tolkien

21. "You your lips, you taste like years of being alone." - Warsan Shire

22. "I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried...I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold." - Catherynee M. Valente, Deathless

23. "At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

24. "He never broke my heart. He only turned it into a compass that always points me back to him." - Clementine von Radics

25. "I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it's fallen in love with the floor." - Cate Marvin from Scenes From the Battle of Us

26. "My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude." - Warsan Shire

27. "I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have." - Chuck Palahnuik, Fight Club

28. "You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are, and you always will be, the whole story." - Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

29. "There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others." - Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

30. "I want you to crave me. From my lips, up to my words." - J.E

31. "Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power." - Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

32. He wants to say I love you but keeps it to goodnight because love will mean falling and she's afraid of heights - r.i.d

33. maybe if i die tonight and the anxiety runs out of my arms with all the blood ive drawn and all the pain runs out of my body like whiskey down a throat the pain just burning for a few seconds more. maybe then you'll all see there was obviously something very very wrong with me - L.C

34. Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I', every one of the now six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world. - Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

35. I could start fires with what I feel for you - David Ramirez

36. I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met - it may be another hundred before we meet again. - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

37. I'm a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think of things that make me sad. I'm lazy, yet I'm ambitious. I don't like myself, but I also love who I am. I say I don't care, but I really do. I crave attention, but reject it when it comes my way. I'm a conflicted contradiction. If I can't figure myself out, there's no way anyone else has. - unknown

38. I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away - Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

39. It's exciting when you find parts of yourself in someone else - Annaka Silvia

40. You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

41. Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind - Nayyirah Waheed, Flood

42. Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage. - E.E. s

43. The Devil is real. And he's not a little red man with horns and a tail. He can be beautiful. Because he's a fallen angel, and he used to be God's favorite - Leah, American Horror Story

44. I have died too many deaths that were not mine - Audre Lorde, "Sequelae"

45. "You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of these moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you'll never know." - Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl

46. Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere? - Charles D'Ambrosio

47. If anyone else were to kiss me, all they would taste is your name. - Clementine von Radics

48. But you have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. - Matthew , Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

49. While I can't have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or plane to meet you for coffee. I'd take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I'd wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say 'Will you...' my answer is 'yes', before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where you could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. - Jeanette Winterson, "Desire"

50. ...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the oe who came before. - Elle Newmark, The Chef's Apprentice

51. Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree. You still believe it to be a beautiful place - Kurt Vonnegut

52. I need a life that isn't just about needing to escape my life - Robert Polito

53. It's beautiful when you find someone that is in love with your mind. Someone that wants to undress your conscience and make love to your thoughts. Someone that wants to watch you slowly take down all the walls you've built up around your mind and let them inside. - unknown

54. Some fall in love. I shatter - Stephin Merritt

55. My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go - Anis Mojgani

56. If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets - Haruki Murakami

57. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else - Tyler Durden, Fight Club 

58. I am not sure I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. - Jorge Luis Borges

59. We met at the wrong time. That's what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we'll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

60. I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life - Voltaire

61. I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too - Pablo Nerudo

62. Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either. - Osho

63. If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die - unknown

64. Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm - Frank Kafka, The Complete Stories

65. Tonight, Sweetheart. Let us adore one another. Before there is no more you and no more me. - Unknown

66. The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her - Frank Sinatra

67. I'm not fine as in fine, but fine as in you don't have to worry about me. - Dr. Gregory House

68. The fact that I suspect I'm an means I probably am not, beause a real doesn't think he's an , does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an , I am in fact negating that very realization, am I not? Descartes's Axiom: I think I am; therefore, I'm not one. - Jonathon Tropper, The Book of Joe

69. "The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

70. We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

71. "I understand I can't have you. But I want to know you're in the world with me." - Jennifer Echois, Forget You

72. Sometimes I feel like I'm about to explode. Or maybe I will implode. I'm not really sure, but I think it's going to get messy. And I think someone's going to get hurt. Probably me. - Melody Carlson, Blade Silver

73. "It's not fair for you to come here," I tell Depression. "I paid you off already..." But he just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the cover over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it. - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

74. A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted - mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more. - Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

75. We destroy things with our curiousity. We shatter with our best intentions. - Lauren DeStefano, Sever

76. You just like the idea of me. You like the person I present myself under circumstances that I can control. I choose what I say and how I say things. It's like being attracted to a fictional character in a book. They are scripted and made up. If you think about it, through writings, we all script and make ourselves up. I don't share the person I become when I am upset. I don't show you how I look like when I sleep. I don't tell you about all the times I've made someone cry. All the guilty things I've done and the bad thoughts I've had. - Han

77. Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose? - Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

78. Some words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow - Alice Hoffman, The Story Sisters

79. The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die - Juliette Lewis

80. Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die - Joanna Weaver

81. "The truth is alwasy an insult or a joke. Lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort." - Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

82. Because you're not what I would have you be. I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. - Madeleine L'Engle, The Irrational Season

83. "What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you." - Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

84. I haven't felt this attracted to anybody in my entire life. It's like every cell in my body is magnetically drawn to him. My mitochondria want to make friends with his mitochondria. - Augusten Burroughs, Dry

85. My existence was beginning to cause me serious concern. Was I a mere figment of the imagination? - Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

86. The world is so much bigger than your brain, stop living inside your head. - tumblr

87. I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me. - Prince Lir, The Last Unicorn

88. I'm still mad at you and I don't know if I trust you. I wanna trust you but I don't know if I do so I'm just gonna try, I'm gonna try and trust you. Because I believe that we can be extraordinary together rahter than ordinary apart. - Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

89. You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down? - Anne Carson, "The Glass Essay"

90. I see you in colors that don't exist - Paul Matsumoto

91. You have exactly one life in which to do everything you'll ever do. Act accordingly. - Colin Wright

92. We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. - Robin Sharma

93. Most days I wish I never met you because then I could sleep at night and I wouldn't have to walk around with the knowledge there was someone like you out there. - tumblr

94. "I love you. I'm in love with you. You're the love of my life. My every feeling is controlled by the look on your face. I can't breathe without you. I can't sleep without you. I wait for you, I watch you. I exist for you." - Fitz, Scandal

95. "I am not a toy you can play with when you're bored or lonely or . I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me!" - Olivia Pope, Scandal

96. "You're supposed to hate the woman. Isn't that the standard trope? The seductress, the , the tramp who led your man astray. And I do. I loathe Olivia Pope. But it's a boring sort of hate. Uninteresting, cliche. It's hard to even get my back into it. But Fitz? I found him. I cleaned him up after that monster who raised him damaged his spirit. I am the one who told him he was someone. I am the one who cheered him on and listened to him ramble about his hopes and his dreams. I am the one who focused him. I did all the work. I did all the work and now she gets to reap the benefits? No. No, I made him. He exists because I say he exists." - Mellie Grant, Scandal

97. It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. -Chuck Palahniuk

98. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it. -Nicholas Sparks

99. It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often than not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul - Sherrilyn Kenyon

100. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed. - Cassandra Clare

101. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. -From To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

102. Life wll break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could - Louise Erdrich

103. You took my heart and you held it in your mouth, and with a word, all my love came rushing out. -Florence Welch

104. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. -Henry David Thoreau

105. It may have been in bits and pieces, but I gave you the best of me. -Jim Morrison

106. I think I'd miss you even if we never met. -From The Wedding Date (2005)

107. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde

108. Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you aprart. - Haruki Murakami

109. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -Aristotle

110. Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. - Albert Schweitzer

111. I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want the gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want...a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. -Shana Abe

112. I won't cry for you, my mascara's too expensive. -Adriana Lima

113. Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living - Jonathon Safran Foer

114. Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without though, but carefully: a premediated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep, it is not because you need sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indication something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life, you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share. - From Hourse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

115. The years have come and gone without a single word from you. Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes. -From The Color Purple by Alice Walker

116. Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. -From Fight Club by Chuck Palaniuk

117. I love you for all that you are, all that you have been and all you're yet to be. -From Tumblr

118. I think we're just gonna have to be secretly in love with each ohter and leave it at that... -Margot Tenenbaum

119. When I die, don't come near my body, because my hand may not be able to wipe your tears anymore - tumblr

120. Even after the entire world has taken me apart, there's still a part of me left for you. -From I Wrote This For You: The Remaining Me

121. There are two people you'll meet in your life. One will run a finger down the indexof who you are and jump straight to the parts of you that peak their interest. The other will take his or her time reading through every one of your chapters and maybe fold corners of you that inspire them most. You will meet these two people; it is a given. It is the third that you'll never see coming. That one person who not only finishes your sentences, but keeps the book. - tumblr

122. Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell." -Hermann Hesse, Narci Si Gura-De-Aur

123. "If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day." -Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

124. "Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something." -Haruki Murakami

125. "Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me." - Anne Boleyn

126. "Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of it’s constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts." -Edgar Allan Poe

127. "I’m not brave any more, darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me." -Ernest Hemingway

128. "I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art." -Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

129. "He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future." - Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

130. "I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling." - Haruki Murakai, Sputnik Sweetheart

131."What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction." - Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

132. "I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me." - J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

133. "The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse." - Ian McEwan, Atonement

134. Listen, you ing fringe, if i throw a dog a bone, i don't want to know if it tastes good or not. You stop me again whilst I'm walking, and I'll cut your ing Jacobs off. - Snatch (2000)

135. ...will holding it secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? - George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

136. "The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." - Achilles (Troy)

137. "It was probably nothing but it felt like the world."- Morrissey, Autobiography

138. "You don't understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world." - John Rogers

139. Something inside is burning me up, and all I know is it makes me think of you. I'm in the middle of a page and I see your face on it -- not blurred like those in my past, but clear and alive. I touch the page and your face is gone and I want to tear the book apart and throw it away. - Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

140. "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. - Khalil Gibran

141. "I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can." - Jack Gilbert, excerpt from "The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart"

142. I lie here and ask myself, Just how many things do I have to invent in my head to survive this? - A.S. King, Ask the Passengers

143. "I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm ting the pages. Sorry." - J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar

144. "I write because you exist." - Michael Faudet