#ok

Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it. ↗

— Brad Gilbert

#harder #look #maybe #over #sometimes

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#been #books #characters #compelling #drawn

I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#book #cheesy #i #jacket #like

I really try to focus on my books and readers. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#focus #i #readers #really #try

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it. ↗

— H. R. Giger

#hope #kind #look #somewhere #you

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#amusement #anymore #certainty #convictions #destiny

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#ancient rome #attendant #back #beings #believe

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#being #books #dedicated #despite #five

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#begins #deal #did #down #down the road

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#again #book #dead #dog #feet