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“People will disappoint you and wrong you, but they will also defend you and fight for you and bowl you over with kindness. We are all such radiant fuckups — we have to remember this and love one another for it. And even when it seems impossible, we have to be good to one another, to extend an open h…”

— Cody Gohl, We Will Hurt Each Other

“Chronic remorse is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”

— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow - you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think…”

— David Lynch, David Lynch Interviews

“Stop wallowing and remember: the more decisions you make, the more your life is your own.”

— Alina Simone, Note to Self

“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”

— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

“Why don’t you tell me that, ‘if the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?' 'No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.'”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise

“I don’t even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I’m the best person in the world, and wants to have sex with only me.”

— Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath, Girls

“I am sorry they mistook your kindness for weakness, Don’t they know? It takes a strong heart to pump all this blood, all this trying, all this willingness to be open when everyone around is trying to force you closed. You warrior with a purple heart. You lover with a Grand Canyon of possibility. The…”

— Ari Eastman, An Anthem For Everyone Who Keeps Loving And Trusting No Matter What

“One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but that’s quite hard to say, casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal,…”

— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

“There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”

— Kate DiCamillo, Because Of Winn-Dixie

“If you fight for your limitations you get to keep them.”

— Vince Vaughn as Billy McMahon, The Internship

“Mainstream feminism marginalizes women of colour. It fails to recognize that gender inequality and racial inequality are intersectional. And race isn’t the only thing that white feminism is missing. Feminism should be about all women, not just one type of woman. How can we talk about sexism without…”

— Melisa Ergin, This Is How All White Feminists Are Failing (And How We Can Do Better)

“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories

“First-quarter U.S. GDP better but still weak. Growth raised to 0.8% from 0.5%; economy looking better in spring.”

— Jeffry Bartash, First-quarter U.S. GDP better but still weak

“I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.”

— Donald Trump, twitter.com

“If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.”

— Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me

“Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.”

— Shonda Rhimes, The Year of Yes