"Mid-Twenties Breakdown: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage."

-Douglas Coupland

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin

I have the right to love many people at once and to change my prince often.

-Anais Nin

"Listen to the mustn'ts child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn't haves, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen child. Anything can be." - Shel Silverstein