It Could All Be Gone Tomorrow. Always Remember That.

“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand. without you even speaking a word.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

"Only know you've been high when you're feeling low / Only hate the road when you're missing home"

-Passenger, Let Her Go

One thing I’ve learned about writing is ”give everything a face”. It’s no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Don’t just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.

it’s bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.

“When you love someone you protect them from the pain, you don’t become the cause of it.”

— Unknown

Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

"it was like something cracked open inside of me, not unlike a watermelon, cool and soothing sweet. I always thought insanity would be a dark and bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it."

- Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

— A.A. Milne

““If you miss them, that means you’re lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.” - Nathan Scott”

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101010 by Sleeping at Last

"I just need to go out 'cause I can sleep when I'm dead"

-Machine Gun Kelly, Kiss Kiss