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“She talks like you. It’s not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag who’s only holding Cinderella back.”

"That’s my girl.”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

“Mackenzie raises her hand proudly. “I have a bagina.”
I smirk. “Yes, you do sweetheart. And someday, it’s gonna help you rule the world.”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

“For God's sake, don't let her watch Cinderella. What kind of example is that? A mindless twit who can't even remember where she left her damn shoe, so she has to wait for some douchebag in tights to bring it to her? Give me a frigging break!”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

“Life leaves scars. Sometimes you don’t see them until later. Sometimes you don’t know where they’ve come from. Sometimes they fade before your eyes. But the world leaves its mark on us.”
― Karina Halle, The Pact

“Humans’ need for comfort is so powerful, and so many people confuse lust with love that it makes them vulnerable to predators like me. Women like Melissa crave the touch and love of a man so badly they’ll accept it from any source. She convinced herself I was a victim to sate her own conscience.”
― Anonymous

“Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have dinner with a female friend if the male friend has a wife. It just doesn’t work down here.” “Why not?” “Because men don’t have female friends. No way. I don’t know of a single man in the entire South who is married and has a female friend. I think it goes back to the Civil War.” “I think it goes back to the Dark Ages. Why are Southern women so jealous?” “Because that’s the way we’ve trained them. They learned from us. If my wife met a male friend for lunch or dinner, I’d tear his head off and file for divorce. She learned it from me.” “That makes absolutely no sense.” “Of course it doesn’t.” “Your wife has no male friends?” “None that I know of. If you learn of any, let me know.” “And you have no female friends?” “Why would I want female friends? They can’t talk about football, or duck hunting, or politics, or lawsuits, or anything that I want to talk about. They talk about kids, clothes, recipes, coupons, furniture, stuff I know nothing about. No, I don’t have any female friends. Don’t want any.” “That’s what I love about the South. The people are so tolerant.” “Thank you.”
― John Grisham, A Time to Kill

“Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.”
― John Grisham, A Time to Kill

“The ocean here is weird. It's the wrong kind of blue.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“The sky inside my head never turns blue. It if forced to stay red. By the demon, who is yellow inside me.”
― Akshay Vasu

“Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.”
― William H. Gass, On Being Blue

“None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered.”
― Amy Harmon, A Different Blue

“Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.”
― Amy Harmon, A Different Blue

“I don't have terrible taste in women. I'm mad about you, aren't I?”

“Are you?"

“Yes, Blue. I am. I am completely gone on you.”
― Amy Harmon, A Different Blue

“This is why I avoid men. This is why I avoid people in general. We are a disgusting, foul race, only a few centuries past smearing our faces with feces and dancing for rain.”
― Alessandra Torre, The Ghostwriter

“In New York, if you invite random strangers in for tea, you’ll be raped and dead within a week. I think that’s almost the way it should be; we should all have a healthy fear of each other.”
― Alessandra Torre, The Ghostwriter

“I had someone in the crowd that night who had a name, who was dearly loved. Those of us who survived are the walking wounded. Or the walking dead.”
― Katy Regnery, Unloved

“Whether you know it or not, your desire to write comes from the urge to not just be “creative,” it’s a need (one every human being on earth has) to help others. A well-told Story is a gift to the reader/listener/viewer because it teaches them how to confront their own discomforts.”
― Shawn Coyne, The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know

“So if your Story doesn’t change your lead character irrevocably from beginning to end, no one will deeply care about it. It may entertain them, but it will have little effect on them. It will be forgotten. We want characters in stories that take on the myriad of challenges to change their lives and somehow make it through, with invaluable experience. Stories give us the courage to act when we face confusing circumstances that require decisiveness. These circumstances are called CONFLICTS. What we do or don’t do when we face conflict is the engine of Storytelling.”
― Shawn Coyne, The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know

“External conflict is the sizzle that gets bottoms in movie seats and books on bestseller lists. As consumers, we have concrete expectations of these Genres as we’ve all been exposed to thousands of them since birth. Again, Genre conventions and obligatory scenes satisfy those expectations. While a reader/viewer may not be able to pinpoint what exactly it is they want from a Story, they know it when it’s not there. Immediately.”
― Shawn Coyne, The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know

“Every story is ultimately about characters, and how they are affected by their adventure.”
― Chris Fox, Write to Market: Deliver a Book that Sells

“If you want to successfully write to market, you need the right tropes, and you need to employ them like a master. Write great characters that match your genre, and your readers will follow you for life.”
― Chris Fox, Write to Market: Deliver a Book that Sells

“If you want to succeed as an author you need to work your ass off. Not only do you need to work, but you need to work intelligently. That means reading a LOT. You need to read in every genre, and you most especially need to read the genre you want to write.”
― Chris Fox, Write to Market: Deliver a Book that Sells

“I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club