#ric

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#discouragement #failure #goals #optimism #pessimism

I've heard a lot about you, Rose. Don't worry. It was all good." "No, it wasn't. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#frostbite #richelle-mead #tasha-ozera #vampire-academy #christianity

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#perceptive #travel #perception

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#bible

How do I get better once I've had the best? ↗

— Katy Perry

#music

Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it. ↗

— Hayley Williams

#lyrics #monster #music #music

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. ↗

— Bill Nye

#richard-wagner #music

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by ↗

— Chris Cornell

#seasons #music

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#lyrics #music #music

I have my books and my poetry to protect me ↗

— Paul Simon

#music