“I am hundreds of little / red decisions scattered on the kitchen floor & so what / if they don’t all taste good.”— Alexis Bates & Logan February, lunalunamagazine.com
“girls’ soccer practice: they are running so hard and shouting so strong with ponytails ponytails ponytails backlit and leaping they are not afraid of you.”— Jenna Jaco, sweettreereview.com
“Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.”— Sade Andria Zabala, lulu.com
“You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel…”— Derek Walcott, brainpickings.org
“If you’re not grappling with self-doubt half the time, you’ve probably lost perspective. The confident ones give us the worst and most lifeless bullshit.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“Beauty or brains? Fuck that, it’s not a dichotomy. Let’s not act like mascara glues girls eyes so shut that they can’t read a word of Dickens or solve a trig problem. Let’s talk about how no boy has ever been asked if he’d rather get his Bachelor’s or get married; no boy has ever been told that he’s…”— uglyboyband, uglyboyband.tumblr.com
“I can't stand moral absolutism. You know, there's always that guy who wants to point out that Martin Luther King cheated on his wife-- as if he obviously couldn't have been a great person if he did something like that. Or someone will bring out an inspirational quote, and get you to agree, and then…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“Be the villain you were born to be. Stop waiting for someone to come along and corrupt you. Succumb to the darkness yourself.”— evilsupplyco, tumblr.evilsupply.co
“Crawl inside this body - find me where I am most ruined. Love me there.”— Rune Lazuli, infpisme.tumblr.com
“The worst part about anger is its end. When your blood has finished boiling, when your fists remember how to unclench, when you grow distant from the very reason why you were angry in the first place, you realize that you have opened up a valley gorge between what once was and what is now. We do cra…”— Amanda Ngo, facebook.com
“Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.”— Unknown, lennonsjohn.tumblr.com
“Stop letting your friends treat you like shit just because you don't want to lose them. Fuck that, get new friends.”— Unknown, facebook.com
“There is shame. There is fear. And there is a dizzying freedom.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradicspoems.tumblr.com
“In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act”— Caroline Caldwel, twitter.com
“Sometimes it’s not the pain that makes you suffer. It’s your own negative thoughts that make it worse.”— hairosebear, hairosebear.deviantart.com
“If you are reading this, you have survived your entire life up until this point. You have survived traumas, heartbreak, devastation, the elements, different phases of life. And here you are. You go, motherfucker. You’re awesome.”— askclint, excusemewhileistrip.tumblr.com
“When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you.”— Patrick Stump, twitter.com