If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you’re willing to risk failure.
—Philip Pullman, Clockwork
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Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
—Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Putting our minds to something has never been the problem. The problem has been: Who decides whose mind is worthy?
—Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
—Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
—Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
He was sure that even to folks who lived a hundred years—as he hoped to do—it seemed like not much more than a summer afternoon.
—Stephen King, The Colorado Kid
Magic—that’s just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn’t so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.
—Robert Bloch, Psycho
The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.
—Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.
—Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
The act of singing gives the most mundane words and phrases reverence and glory. You can make a shrine out of anything.
—Florence Welch, Useless Magic
