“You Must Want To Spend The Rest Of Your Life With Yourself First.”

they should make it easier

““If you miss them, that means you’re lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.” - Nathan Scott”

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I wish i loved myself enough to leave you.

“It’s rare to meet someone with a mind just as beautiful as their face.”

— Unknown

One thing I’ve learned about writing is ”give everything a face”. It’s no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Don’t just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.

it’s bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.

I had a sense of preparation for a love to come. Like the extension of canopies, the unrolling of ceremonial carpets, as if I must first create a marvelous world in which to house it, in which to receive adequately this guest of honor.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One 1931-1934, Anaïs Nin

That’s all I want. Just you and me. Always.

Lauren Oliver

"it was like something cracked open inside of me, not unlike a watermelon, cool and soothing sweet. I always thought insanity would be a dark and bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it."

- Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony, but if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Huey Freeman

“If you don’t love yourself you will always be chasing after people who don’t love you either.”

— Mandy Hale