#tin

There’s no magical healing in this. I won’t wake up tomorrow fixed and joyful. I’ll still hurt and grieve. But moments like this, with Colton? They make it all bearable. He doesn't fix me, doesn't heal me. He just makes life worthwhile. He helps me remember to breathe, shows me how to smile again. He kisses me, and I can forget pain, forget the urges I still have to cut for the pain that erases the emotions. ↗

— Jasinda Wilder

#colton #cutter #cutting #escape #falling

Like some people in life, a lot of my characters have no future. ↗

— Jack Tate

#life

I write what I feel, fiction with a twist of truth. I don't write because I want to, I write because I have to. ↗

— Jack Tate

#writing #life

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#character #michelle-pillow #quote #writing-life #writing-process

...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ... ↗

— John Geddes

#heart-of-life #writing-advice #life

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments. ↗

— Andrew Levkoff

#life-lesson #moderation #setting-goals #life

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head. ↗

— Susan Orlean

#writing #writing-life #life

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#pictures #portrait #resemble #true-to-life #life

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written ↗

— Julia Cameron

#writing-process #inspirational

Can I just say that the first kiss of your life (that you can remember) should not taste like cigarette smoke? With that said, it is a heart-melting, nerve-wracking, body-aching, feet-sweating, overall best first kiss ever. ↗

— Anonymous

#first-kiss #heart-melting #kiss #taste #life