“All you have to be is a human being. That’s success. When you’re a human being, life feels satisfying.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“[singing] I will start anew / I will make amends / and I will make quite certain / that the story ends / on a note of hope / on a strong amen / and I'll thank the world / and remember when / I was able to begin again!”— Leslie Bricusse, Ebenezer Scrooge, Albert Finney, imdb.com
“As for the girl who once rode these paths on her blue bicycle all those years back: She resides in me still, still guilty of the crime Jerry Salinger accused me of the last time I saw him—that I love the world and am hungry to know more of it.”— Joyce Maynard, vogue.com
“I want to do more than survive. I need to start over.”— Kate Erickson, Madison Clark, Kim Dickens, imdb.com
“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that too, They start over. They find a way.”— Celeste Ng, amazon.com
“I thought maybe starting over didn't have to mean cutting myself off completely. Maybe I'd been hanging with the wrong people. Maybe I could start over with the right person. But if I'd have known what was going to happen, I never would have walked through that door.”— Hayley Tyler, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com
“I caught the balloon by the end of its string. I did not catch the balloon. I was sorry to see it go. A lot of things get smaller. Shoes, jackets. Don’t laugh at me. I know the sound a dog makes when it’s in love. I know what people do when they get married. There are some grown-ups in the other roo…”— Maria Martin, narrativemagazine.com
“You may think it’s too late to start over; it’s not. You may think that you are too broken to be fixed; you’re not.”— Alessandra Nicasio, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”— Nicole Sobon, amazon.com
“I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.”— Curtis Sittenfeld, amazon.com
“I hope wherever she takes you that you will learn to call the place home. And that you will let the sky fill you with rain when you are emptied like a bucket overflowing, spilling off the edges, quenching the thirst of our broken earth Until you no longer ache for anything but your steady legs and t…”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Patience allows you to tolerate the times you fail and the times you then forget to just start over.”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com
“I still hope that when we meet again, you’ll remember how I made you feel and you’ll realize that this is the time to say it all — this is the time to follow your heart. And I still hope that one day, you’ll stop being so damn logical and follow your heart and I still hope that your heart will lead…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I still hope that we’ll meet halfway when you’ve changed a little bit; when you’ve figured out where you belong and you’re no longer chasing rainbows, when you’ve achieved all the dreams that were stopping you from being with someone.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I still hope you remember the last conversation we had so we can continue talking about it, so we can pick up exactly where we left off, so we can feel like time hasn’t changed a thing because for me it hasn’t — for me, time stopped when you went away.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yours…”— Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Som…”— Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com