“Fuck security. Give us the mess. Give us the big splash of life and color and failure. It’s beautiful.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”— Joan Didion, goodreads.com
“I used to think I had the answers to everything. But now I know, life doesn't always go my way, yeah...Feels like I'm caught in the middle.”— Britney Spears, play.spotify.com
“I don't know how to do this?...Live my life.”— Daniel Palladino, Emily Gilmore, Kelly Bishop, imdb.com
“It feels… right. Such a long time getting here… sometimes it’s just a journey, you know?”— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Lorelai Gilmore, Lauren Graham, imdb.com
“It's my life, Rory. I went through all this effort for many, many years making sure people only knew what I wanted them to know, and now you're going to lay it all out in a book?”— Daniel Palladino, Lorelai Gilmore, Lauren Graham, imdb.com
“Emily: I don’t know how to do this. Lorelai: Do what? Emily: Live my life.”— Lauren Graham and Kelly Bishop, Lorelai Gilmore and Emily Gilmore, netflix.com
“I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much…”— John Green, amazon.com