“You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends. They can love you all the time, without judgement. At least the good ones can.”
— Ryan O'Connell
Short stories are a great way to learn writing. They’re short commitments, so if it fails, it’s ok you’ve only lost 3 days and your next attempt will be better.
Having the way a character organizes their home mirror how they organize their life can be a really helpful literary tool and a subtle way to flesh out your character.
“The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.”
— Jonathan Carroll
“I can’t think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you, than to live and love life more without them.”
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
“My sister told me a soul mate is not the person who makes you the happiest but the one who makes you feel the most, who conducts your heart to bang the loudest, who can drag you giggling with forgiveness from the cellar they locked you in. It has always been you.”
— Sierra Demulder
“If you don’t go after what you want you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”
— Nora Roberts
“Sometimes the smallest things take the most room in your heart.”
— Winnie the Pooh
I'm just a weird girl who likes to read about history, mythology and feminism.
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