( one )
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. 
( The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas )



( two )
Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes run mad, as if mad is a different direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don't go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in. 
( Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood )



( three )
I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. 
( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll )



( four )
She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. 
( Alice Sebold )



( five )
May be silly for me to feel this way about you and her 'cause I know she's been such a good friend. I know she has helped you through. Talking late on the phone, every night you've been calling. Private moments alone, could your heart soon be falling? And I know she's a friend but I can't shake the feeling that I could be losing your heart. 
( Girlfriend | Alicia Keys )



( six )
So you broke down, trying to leave town. I broke down, crying on your return. You left me feeling hopeful I'll never see your face again. You made for a bad lover's liver. You stole all the covers and busted my head. You made me such an asshole. I wish we'd never met. I'm tired of being bored, I'm through with all the headaches. Hiding my hands that tremble like earthquakes under the table, under the daytime sky. Good-fucking-bye. 
( Good Fucking Bye | Alkaline Trio )



( seven )
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. 
( All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum )



( eight )
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. 
( All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy )



( nine )
If you want tenderness I've got tenderness. And I see through to the heart of you. If you want a man who will understand, you don't have to look very far. 
( I Can Love You Like That | All-4-One )



( ten )
Please speak slowly, my heart is learning. Teach me heartache, stop this burning now. 
( Too Far Gone | All-American Rejects )