“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.”— Thomas Harris, amazon.com
“The fear of not being successful outweighed any fears I had about my writing ability.”— Ryan O’Connell, itunes.apple.com
“Do it. Just say something. No, don’t. Don’t stare. Side-hug and leave. No. Ask for her number. Why are you panicking? She’s just a girl”— Alyson Stoner, teenvogue.com
“Working for yourself may mean you have more time to do what you love at your own discretion, but it doesn’t mean you’re exempt from caring about other people’s opinions of what you do.”— Brianna Wiest, forbes.com
“This example illustrates something deeply important: groups with one or more sociopaths do not target people who are incompetent. On the contrary, they target those who threaten the status quo in some way.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“I tell my students that life’s biggest moments — car accidents, graduations, even deaths — may not be the best fodder for their writing. I tell them the most significant moments happen on a random Tuesday.”— Kathleen Volk Miller, nytimes.com
“Self-esteem is an inside job and there might come a point that you realize she just isn’t ready for you. That’s okay. Someone else will be.”— Bridget Phetasy, melmagazine.com
“Men who call women crazy are always the men who have first pushed them to the brink.”— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com
“We’re the mass shooting generation. I was born months after Columbine. I’m 17 years old and we’ve had 17 years of mass shootings.”— Cameron Kasky, huffingtonpost.com
“I think you're the most sexy and attractive person I've ever met in my entire life. You're prefect.”— Hayley Tyler, Kate Messner, Peyton Kennedy, imdb.com
“Why am I so in love? Why am I so in love? Why am I so in love? I don't know why.”— XXXTENTACION, open.spotify.com
“We should forgive the ones of us that are weaker and support the ones of us that are stronger.”— Dave Chappelle, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“'You are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”— Emilie Autumn, amazon.com
“I followed my heart all last year and it led me nowhere. Now I need to follow my head.”— Sara Goodman, Blair Waldorf, Leighton Meester, imdb.com
“There is too much motivation to become a brand and not enough to become great at something.”— John Mayer, instagram.com
“You are not responsible for the actions of those who’ve come before you, but you absolutely do have a responsibility to acknowledge those actions and their impacts.”— G.D. Anderson, gdanderson.com
“What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com