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She drew herself up and crossed her arms over her chest. “So Buck can enjoy sitting in a cell contemplating how he blew up his life. That dickwad hurt two people sitting at this table. And you’re worried about who’ll look bad if they tell? Screw that. Dean and D.J. and Kennedy and every frat boy on this campus can all go fuck themselves. Are we sisters or not? ↗

— Tammara Webber

#girl-power #inspirational #sisterhood #sorority #inspirational

I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and lots of small treats. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#inspirational #self-esteem #humor

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#writing-humor #writing-life #humor

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will. ↗

— Fernán Caballero

#force #inspirational #power #steam #will

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others. ↗

— David Benioff

#history #inspirational #jewish #jews #pessimism

As long as your not hiding behind a closed door, he'll come. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#her #him #inspirational #life #love

A novelist is similar to a triathlete. Train hard every day. You will be timed and measured. Budget to promote, grow, and be without fear. ↗

— Caroline Gerardo

#inspirational

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. ↗

— John Adams -

#inspirational #motivational #inspirational

The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American...(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what's happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real. ↗

— Linda Leaming

#reality #world-view #inspirational

Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost and the human being--whoever he or she may be--is no longer revered as an inviolable mystery. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#inspirational #inspirational