“If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.”

— Cate Blanchett

“Grief is like a moving river, so that’s what I mean by it’s always changing. It’s a strange thing to say because I’m at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It’s just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.”

— Michelle Williams

“I want to be a living Art Work.”

— Marchesa Casati

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”

— Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”

— Kurt Vonnegut in Cat’s Cradle

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, ‘Consume me’.”

— Virginia Woolf in The Waves

“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”

— James Dean