I've been reading Immortal Diamond, Falling Upward and Everything Belongs by Richard Rohr. You should probably read it, especially if you're over 35 years old. Also recommended: Breathing Underwater.

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Aslan,” said Lucy, “you're bigger.”

“That is because you are older, little one,” answered he.

“Not because you are?”

“I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”

Prince Caspian

"Just. What a terrible, candle snuffing word." JM Barrie

“Sometimes I could put myself to sleep saying that over and over until after the honeysuckle got all mixed up in it the whole thing came to symbolize night and unrest I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of grey halflight where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Wonder. Go on and wonder.”-William Faulkner

“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury