Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.
I studied literature design and fashion design.
I’m a terribly irresponsible eater – I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.
I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
Don’t make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.
Some things in life are worth waiting for.
You don’t need to show off your body to catch a boy’s eye. You’d best learn that early on, or you’ll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.
There was nothing you couldn’t do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.
I don’t just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.
If it’s meant to be, they’ll find a way to make it work eventually.
Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.
For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.
Feelings aren’t sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don’t make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.
Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can’t avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works.
You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.
Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.
I don’t want to have to give up me, in order to be his.
Nothing is irreversible except dying.
You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.
Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.
Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor “You’re loveable”!