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Kat wrote: "What is your favorite quote and why?I'll start!
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places...."
Omg the Roald Rahl one is so moving!
“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
― Conrad Joseph
Conrad has helped me through many dentist appointments!
"Get up. Your only wounded. Not dead. Use your pain and anger to get up again. Your battles not over." From my own book! Not yet published but I hope it will.
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”“One may smile and smile and be a villain.”
“I went to Catholic school. I got A Level guilt”. (Probably won’t mean much unless you’re British and Catholic).
“Catholicism is a religion for people who like Latin and guilt”.
"The biggest mistake I made was believing that if I cast a beautiful net, I'd catch only beautiful things." - The OA
Nancy wrote: "“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
― Conrad Joseph
Conrad has helped me through many dentist appointments!"
Hahah true bravery
Hafsabookworm wrote: ""Get up. Your only wounded. Not dead. Use your pain and anger to get up again. Your battles not over." From my own book! Not yet published but I hope it will."I love that! I hope to read it someday :)
“Where’s Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. A rough approximation of the best first sentence in literature.
@Kat Medina - Thank youuu! I hope to get it published in a couple years (slow writer, plus school and all)
"I'm selfish, impatient a a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."- Marilyn Monroe
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin
I feel like you learn who your true friends are and family, when they are able to be there for you through good and bad times. The second quote I feel is pretty self explanatory.
Nathaniel wrote: "“Where’s Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. A rough approximation of the best first sentence in literature."What is the book?
"When you're not fed love on a silver platter you learn to lick it off knives." Is up there for me
@Judith Speed Sorry, Charlotte's Web by E. B. White.
Hafsabookworm wrote: "@Kat Medina - Thank youuu! I hope to get it published in a couple years (slow writer, plus school and all)"From experience, I totally get it! Be patient! It's worth the work :)
Cassandra 📚 wrote: ""I'm selfish, impatient a a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my b..."I love all of these!
"To the stars who listen, and the dreams that are answered" - Rhysand (this book actually has so many good quotes)"Be curious, not judgemental" - Walt Whitman
"Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today" - Mat Cauthon
These are a few of my favorites <3
@Cassandra 📚 i like soo much the quote from Marilyn Monroe
"I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known"
Annie wrote: ""I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known""I love this one.
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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”― Roald Dahl
I love this quote because it reminds me to seek out the hidden moments of awe and wonder that are sprinkled throughout our daily lives.
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” –Michelangelo
I love this quote because it acts as a reminder to dream big and listen to what our heart is calling us to do in this one life.