"Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process."
Michele Rosenthal
"But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are more human than most human beings. When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together. I envy mundanes their resilience sometimes."
Anonymous
"See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don’t have a hero. You can’t kill a hero. That’s why I never let him get older."
Mickey Spillane
"I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living."
Harry Nilsson
"What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment."
Pauline Rose Chance
"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?"
P.G. Wodehouse
"I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women."
Ben Fountain
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
H.L. Mencken
"I don't even know how long she sobs. Time ceases to pass, and she cries, cries, cries. Clutches me and makes these sounds of a soul being ripped in two, the grief so long denied taking its toll. Fermented grief is far more potent."
Jasinda Wilder
"Find what you love and let it kill you."
Charles Bukowski
"If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking."
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language trying to get human feelings right."
John K. Hutchens
"They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet."
Anthony Doerr
"Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?"
Lisa Tawn Bergren
"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."
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