We like to think we're in control but we never are.
~ Joyce Rachelle
How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.
Life did come with a manual.
Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.
If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.
Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.
Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.
It's only awkward if it matters.
You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.
It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.
The horizon changes but the sun does not.
If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.
Life is a curriculum unique to every student.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.
Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.
Nobody ever goes before their time.
Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.
There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.
One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.
Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.
She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.
I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.
Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.
Every morning I tell myself, I'll sleep early tonight. And every night I say, One more chapter.
Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling.
When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.
Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.
Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off.
If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.
Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.
Not all friends know they have lost you.
Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.
If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide,A part of you has died.
You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.
When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.
If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.
But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say I do.
If this cursed and fallen worldholds such beauty as what I see,Imagine the beauty of paradisethat's gladly waiting for me.
It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.
