#vice

Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours. ↗

— Holly Black

#moms #sensitive #strong #advice

Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#divided #live-your-life-as-if-you-re-one #tegan-and-sara #you-could-ve-been-something #life

Advice is a form of Nostalgia ↗

— Mary Schmich

#nostalgia #sunscreen #life

Do whatever you want. Break stuff, touch your penis or boobs to anything, whatever. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#humor #humor

It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be. ↗

— Claire Cross

#life-advice #relationship-advice #life

If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#comedy #humor #humour #life #philosophy

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#failure-relationship #marriage #marriage-life #marriage-preparation #relationships-advice

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#writing-life #life

E.L. Doctorow said once said that "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#life

Raise the bar. Don't duck under it. ↗

— Peter James West

#writing-life #writing-process #life