"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
Unknown
fabian 1
"A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché."
Khaled Hosseini
fabian 2
"Arin, you’re not listening. You’re not thinking clearly.”“You’re right. I haven’t been thinking clearly, not for a long time. But I understand now.” Arin pushed his tiles away. His winning hand scattered out of line. “You have changed, Kestrel. I don’t know who you are anymore. And I don’t want to."
Marie Rutkoski
fabian 1
"You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not."
Octavia Spencer
fabian 2
"Clara Winter,' he said. 'You are a word person and don't ever forget it.'He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people."
Alison McGhee
fabian 1
"Because I'm a monster, like my father before me and his father before him, and so on. There is no help for me."
Courtney Cole
fabian 2
"Just give me more, better memories to replace the bad ones. I’ll be back to normal before we know it."
A.R. Von
fabian 2
"I threw his framed picture off my balcony just to hear my heart break."
Kimberly Novosel
fabian 2
"When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation."
Unknown
fabian 2
"Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way."
Margaret Craven
fabian 1
"Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve."
Unknown
fabian 2
"Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning."
Christine de Pizan
fabian 1