The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be.

In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' before you do it, but in my case it was a gun."