You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. Votes: 13
There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones. Votes: 4
It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time. Votes: 2
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? Votes: 0
To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed. Votes: 0
Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter. Votes: 0
Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. Votes: 0
Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be. Votes: 0
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. Votes: 0
The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over. Votes: 0
History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. Votes: 0
After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken. Votes: 0
there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part. Votes: 0
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. Votes: 0
We Pisces, we're a special breed. Votes: 0
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. Votes: 0
Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. Votes: 0
Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan. Votes: 0
But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture. Votes: 0
The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies Votes: 0
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. Votes: 0
The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. Votes: 0
A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. Votes: 0
You can't keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people. Votes: 0
It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. Votes: 0
Bleeding heart, he'd called her. Well. He should know. He'd been the first to rip it to pieces. Votes: 0
I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens. Votes: 0
My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. Votes: 0
That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones? Votes: 0
We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any. Votes: 0
Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. Votes: 0
Lie to yourself until it's true. Votes: 0
I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose. Votes: 0
Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you. Votes: 0
Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways. Votes: 0
I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend. Votes: 0
Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture. Votes: 0
eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you Votes: 0
When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do. Votes: 0
You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control. Votes: 0
Does fate ever play by the rules? Votes: 0
you never forget your first fall. Votes: 0
Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief. Votes: 0
Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river. Votes: 0
Or. I hate that word. It's two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt. Votes: 0
In reality, you don't ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path. Votes: 0
I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss. Votes: 0
Every life has a soundtrack. Votes: 0
I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall. Votes: 0
You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you. Votes: 0
I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not. Votes: 0
What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me? Votes: 0
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. Votes: 0
We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others. Votes: 0
These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore. Votes: 0
Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts... Votes: 0
People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were. Votes: 0
We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question. Votes: 0
Only the liar knows he's lying Votes: 0
Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay. Votes: 0
I'm weird. Everyone says so. Votes: 0
Everyone deserves a happy ending. Votes: 0
People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes. Votes: 0
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? Votes: 0
That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person Votes: 0
Love makes life a little brighter Votes: 0
Leave it to a man to mess things up Votes: 0
Men don't traipse. We... Swagger Votes: 0
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me. Votes: 0
Who spit in your porridge? Votes: 0
It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there. Votes: 0
sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. Votes: 0
When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right. Votes: 0
Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them. Votes: 0
Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams. Votes: 0
When heaven breaks, who fixes it? Votes: 0
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right. Votes: 0
It's choice that makes us human. Votes: 0
When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there. Votes: 0
Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home Votes: 0
A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating. Votes: 0
Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome. Votes: 0
What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken. Votes: 0
The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled. Votes: 0
love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable. Votes: 0
If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost? Votes: 0
It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them? Votes: 0
When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? Votes: 0
You can't pay a landlord in dogma. Votes: 0
I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage. Votes: 0
I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer. Votes: 0
I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child. Votes: 0
Life can change in an instant. Votes: 0