"After a few more minutes of daydreaming about how fabulous I could become, I look down at the heading on my paper: Janey's Reinvention Plan. It appears lonely at the top of the page. I should probably add some bullets beneath, but I've never been much of a list maker."
J.C. Patrick
"Build your life not on what you see today but on the things of tomorrow."
Sunday Adelaja
"Warlock: Four thousand and fifty-three metric tons of inert rock, metal and organic matter, frozen solid.Quasar: Frozen in what?Drax: Time.Quasar: 'Time', Drax?Drax: Uh-huh. Old, old frozen time.Quasar: Right. And that tastes like what?Drax: Regret."
Dan Abnett
"I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women."
Ben Fountain
"It's really easy to do sad you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that."
Jill Soloway
"Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough."
Inio Asano
"Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values."
Helen Merrell Lynd
"They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing up."
Zadie Smith
"Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script."
Johnny Rich
"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle."
Joan Didion
"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
Maya Angelou
"I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching, We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away."
Emily Dickinson
"How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary."
Craig Thompson
"Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been."
Lurlene McDaniel
"I wanted to stay this way forever.Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes."
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