Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls.
Hardships can harden even the best person.
Those who don’t heed the warnings don’t live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you’ve just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
Fate changes when you change your clothes.
The life we receive is not always what we choose.
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he’s just another bird drinking from your misery.
Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.
There are a lot of people who think that’s what’s needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
I won’t be what I’m not. -Jing-mei.
Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.
It means we’re looking one way, while following another. We’re for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.
Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
Too many good things all seem the same after a while.
I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don’t want.
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you’re in control.
Why do you think you are missing something you never had?