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“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

“I knew my value because the world seemed to be denying it, and that just made me want to prove it even more.”
― A.J. Mendez Brooks, Crazy Is My Superpower: How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts, and Breaking the Rules

“Life's a bitch and then you keep on fucking living.”
― Will Elliott, The Pilo Family Circus

“Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.”
― Maureen Johnson

“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“If there’s a heaven, it’s a cold place. A dark place. A lonely place.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill

“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“Death comes quick, in the beat of a heart, and he ain't picky about who he takes.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill

“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
― Agatha Christie

“Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald

“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

“That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done”
― Banana Yoshimoto, N.P

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Okay, that's enough. Everyone. Let's just calm down. We don't want to look bad in front of the psychopaths.”
― Tom Taylor

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“And when things get tough, this is what you should do.

Make good art.

I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn't matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.

Make it on the good days too.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“No, I’m not ok. But I haven’t been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
I’m still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough.”
― Clementine von Radics

“Wil Wheaton Says: Don't be a dick.”
― Wil Wheaton

“At the end of the day, every man has to wipe his own ass.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill