„it was the period I think of as the age of the pillow… What I wanted to bring out – is that which cannot be measured – I wanted to bring out the tired movement in the eyelids – the lips must look as though they are whispering – she must look as though she is breathing – I want life – what is alive.“

— Edvard Munch

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„Polly wants a crackerThink I should get off her firstThink she wants some waterTo put out the blow torch.“
— Kurt Cobain
„I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her."Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.“
— Cassandra Clare
„But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.“
— Virginia Woolf
„I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?“
— Jodi Picoult
„I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.I want to be light and frolicsome.I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,as though I had wings.“
— Mary Oliver