“I COULD STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF FIFTH AVENUE AND SHOOT SOMEBODY, AND I WOULDN’T LOSE ANY VOTERS, OKAY? IT’S, LIKE, INCREDIBLE.” — Donald J. Trump, January 2016
“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” – Jodi Picoult
“She’s imperfect but she tries
She is good but she lies
She is hard on herself
She is broken and won’t ask for help
She is messy but she’s kind
She is lonely most of the time
She is all of this mixed up
And baked in a beautiful pie
She is gone but she used to be mine.”
– Sara Bareilles, “She Used to Be Mine”
“Race doesn’t really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don’t have that choice.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable, and you need to be fixed.”
― Kim Brittingham
“A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.” ― RJ Gonzales
“I’m choosing happiness over suffering; I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think but to give you questions to think upon.” — Brandon Sanderson
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
— Robert Frost, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"
“If you crush a cockroach, you’re a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you’re a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”—Lionel Shriver
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.” — Isaac Asimov
“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” ― Amy Bloom
“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.” — e. e. cummings