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October 14, 2024October 14, 2024 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

I am that mysterious stranger who I hope to meet.

—Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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January 8, 2024 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

It is the bad that teaches you, makes you think; good takes care of itself and only gets better.

—Joan Rivers, Enter Talking

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June 25, 2023June 25, 2023 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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April 18, 2023 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

The most important things are the hardest things to say.

—Stephen King, Different Seasons

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March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

—Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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December 1, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

A grown woman is like a coyote—she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they’ll die of sadness.

—Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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August 20, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

—Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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July 11, 2022July 11, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

—Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

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June 19, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.

—V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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May 21, 2022August 20, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Words never mean what what we want them to mean. If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood.

—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

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