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“I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“But two years into our parties, I surveyed the scene from the corner and wondered, Why are we having these parties? What were we making, coming together like that? We were trying to prove that we had everything because we had parties, but I began to feel like we had nothing but parties. If anyone from the future could look back on what we were building, I was sure they would say, That could only have been built by slaves.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.”
― Sheila Heti

“Better to have your failure right in front of you than the fantasy in your head.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“All I'm saying is: if there's a pool and people are in the pool and you're not in the pool, you want to be in the pool just like those people in the pool. It's just a fact of nature.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“I felt like I was the tin man, the lion, and the scarecrow in one: I could not feel my heart, I had no courage, I could not use my brain,”
― Sheila Heti

“But two years into our parties, I surveyed the scene from the corner and wondered, 'Why are we having these parties?' What were we making, coming together like that? We were trying to prove that we had everything because we had parties, but I began to feel like we had nothing but parties. If anyone from the future could look back on what we were building, I was sure they would say, 'That could only have been built by slaves”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“Also, I knew that if I said a single word, I would burst into tears, as I always did, always had, my entire life, whenever anything difficult had to be discussed. It always was too scary; a threat I had felt since childhood that at any moment a relationship might disappear with a poof because of something little I had done or said.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“Just as one moment can bring despair, it can also lead to a new beginning. A different life. A dream for moving onward and upward rather than backward.”
― Diane Guerrero, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

“We don't do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we're fortunate, we never stop.”
― Diane Guerrero, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

“Norman Vincent Peale "A peaceful mind generates power." from his book The Powers of Positive Thinking.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

“If I look back I am lost.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“There will never be anyone exactly like you. You were given special gifts and talents to share with the world, and even though everybody has special gifts and talents, nobody will use theirs quite the same way you do.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“There’s something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while they’re in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder they’re called crabs.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“You need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“What other people think of you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“Our greatest fears are the greatest waste of time.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“Holding on to my bad feelings about this is doing nothing but harming me, and everyone else, and preventing me from enjoying my life fully. I am an awesome person. I choose to enjoy my life. I choose to let this go.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“Take care of yourself as if you’re the most awesome person you’ve ever met.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“Then the birds flew away, their names turned to kisses, a silence to spell a new world.”
― Jessie Burton, The Muse

“Why are we so trapped by the hours, the minutes of every day? Why can't we live the life that's always out of reach?”
― Jessie Burton, The Muse

“You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“What was worse, being crazy or being evil?”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“She already had enough people giving her shit for Aggrandizement, she didn’t need a friend who was sworn to tear her down.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky