SE Simone Elkeles Author “I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.” Want Matter Perfect Chemistry ♥ 51
Steve Jobs Entrepreneur “I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.” Years Life Creating Things ♥ 51
Neil Gaiman Author “Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.” Made Adults ♥ 51
Ovid Poet “A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.” Men Soldier Appreciated ♥ 51
J. Cole Rapper, songwriter “I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.” Men Want Computer ♥ 51
Nathaniel Parker Willis Writer “One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.” Country Morning Opera ♥ 51
Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer “As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.” People Children Superhero ♥ 51
George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter “I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.” Way League Jaime Lannister ♥ 51
Mark Twain Writer, Humorist “I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.” Two Balance Smoking ♥ 51
Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist “As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.” Book Lonely Loneliness ♥ 51
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Author “Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.” Dark Loneliness Solitude ♥ 51
