“People wanna be good. They really do, deep down. But they just fuck up.”— Jenji Kohan, Marisol 'Flaca' Gonzales, Jackie Cruz, imdb.com
“How did I screw everything up so badly?”— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Joel Maisel, Michael Zegen, imdb.com
“It’s okay if your breath gets short, No one is blaming you. You can make mistakes from time to time; Everyone else does too.”— Lee Hi, open.spotify.com
“Maybe it won't work out in first attempt. But seeing if it does, will be the best adventure ever.”— Sarvesh Jain, amazon.com
“We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have n…”— Nayyirah Waheed, Warsan Shire, kepthoney.com
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Som…”— Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com
“Your 20s are about undoing as much as they are anything else. Choosing new. Deciding otherwise. Shedding layers that have muddied your idea of who you think you are. This is the kind of scary magic you want.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong clothes, having the wrong roommate, saying the wro…”— Candace Bushell, amazon.com
“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“None of us can take back what we’ve done in the past, the most meaningful apology is how you live the rest of your life.”— Kathryn Schulz, Penny Beernsten, amazon.com
“Chronic remorse is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“Freedom continues to be the thing I prize most in the world. Of course, this has led me to drink wines I did not like, to do things I should not have done and which I will not do again; it has left scars on my body and on my soul, it has meant hurting certain people, although I have since asked thei…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“People's flaws need to be written about. The flaws of some people lead to horrors inflicted on others. And then there are the more human flaws that, when you shine a light onto them, de-demonize people who might otherwise be seen as ogres.”— Jon Ronson, amazon.com
“What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wo…”— Cheryl Strayed, goodreads.com