#takes

Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.” “Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.” “I —” “You hurt everyone,” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.” “Not you,” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you.” Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. “Will —” “You can’t never forgive me,” Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. “I’d be —” “Alone?” Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. “And whose fault is that? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #loneliness #mistakes #will-herondale #forgiveness

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#erring #mistakes #progress #responsibility #progress

It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play. ↗

— Bart Starr

#analyze #game #half #me #play

If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#mistakes #inspirational

There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it. ↗

— Benjamin Bayani

#life #mistakes #life

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#drunks #gossip #mistakes #night #police

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#focus #god #humanity #mistakes #perfection

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious. ↗

— Jimmy Stewart

#jimmy-stewart #mistakes #judgment

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#life #mistakes #life

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#am #baby #because #disciplinarian #easy