#girl

I’m not sure,” she said. “There’s no one answer to that. You have to find your own way. Sometimes I try to erase myself. I imagine a big pink soft soap eraser, and it’s going back and forth, back and forth, and it starts down at my toes, back and forth, back and forth, and there they go-poof!-my toes are gone. And then my feet. And then my ankles. But that’s the easy part. The hard part is erasing my senses-my eyes, my ears, my nose, my tongue. And last to go is my brain. My thoughts, memories, all the voices inside my head. That’s the hardest, erasing my thoughts.” She chuckled faintly. “My pumpkin. And then, if I’ve done a good job, I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#imagination

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it. ↗

— Ally Carter

#carter #gallagher #girls #inspirational #inspirational

Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#death #hans-christian-andersen #match-girl #death

Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter. ↗

— Katelyn S. Irons

#inspirational #shine #stargirl #inspirational

Because I am a woman, I mustmake unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#inspirational #social #true #inspirational

We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.: Glitch snorted. "More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#lol #death

There was power in the pen, I knew this for certain...It was there all the time, just waiting for me. ↗

— Shay Youngblood

#inspirational #shay-youngblood #inspirational

She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking. Her shadow on the wallpaper of the hotel room seemed the silhouette of her uncorruption. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#lara #page- #inspirational

What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl. ↗

— Lidia Yuknavitch

#inspirational #lidia #script #seattle #yuknavitch

Summer isn't a season, it's a feeling. ↗

— Saumya Balsari

#romance #teenage-girls #inspirational