“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but nothing is infinite, not […]
Favorite Quotations
Will Herondale
“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn’t completely alone.” Will Herondale
Edmund Lee
“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, bust most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” Edmund Lee
Chuck Wendig
“There exists this moment before I edit where I feel completely overwhelmed. This is, quite literally, part of my process. I get this sense of literary vertigo, like I’m staring over the cliff’s edge into the crashing gears of some giant malevolent machine that I cannot comprehend and that I am sure will crush me […]
“Rose in Bloom,” Louisa May Alcott
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.” Louisa May Alcott, “Rose in Bloom”
JD Darkmatter
“Writing is the act of cutting yourself open, spilling your guts on the page and hoping someone looks at it and says ‘I know what you mean.’” JD Darkmatter
Rosemarie Urquico
“You should date a girl who reads. Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card […]
“Isn’t It Pretty to Think So?,” Nick Miller
“Write to write. Write because you need to write. Write to settle the rage within you. Write with an internal purpose. Write about something or someone that means so much to you, that you don’t care what others think.” Nick Miller, “Isn’t It Pretty to Think So?”