“My biggest mistake was thinking you could fix me. Only I can fix me.”— Liana Liberato, Kate, amazon.com
“You are not damaged goods just because you’ve made mistakes in your life. You are not going nowhere just because you haven’t got where you want to go yet. Those are the things you actually are not. Now I want to tell you what you are. You are your own definition of beautiful and worthwhile; that’s w…”— Taylor Swift, youtube.com
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.”— Garth Stein, amazon.com
“That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride.”— Philip Roth, amazon.com
“I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up to them. I also learned to forgive myself and correct my mistakes.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong clothes, having the wrong roommate, saying the wro…”— Candace Bushell, amazon.com
“20-somethings have the tendency to imagine that their 20s are the last chance they’re going to have to experiment, explore, and party. This is a false premise. Restaurants and cafes continue to let people over 29 through their doors. They even serve them alcohol.”— Holden Desalles, thoughtcatalog.com
“'Should' is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“What if I miss? I've wondered, mid-thrust: What if I miss and hit a pelvic bone? I'd sustain major injury to myself and, depending on how hard I thrusted, I might even hurt her!”— Rich Santos, marieclaire.com