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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Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.
—Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
—Stephen King, Different Seasons
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
—Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
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
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
—Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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
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
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
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
—Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s