Don't Sabotage Your Future Peace Because Familiar Chaos Is Comfortable.

“Making love was never about you and me in a bed. We made love whenever we held hands.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand. without you even speaking a word.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

Florence Welch

"You take the pain I feel"

-Comatose/Skillet

I wish i loved myself enough to leave you.

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

Lauren Oliver

“I like to listen. I have learnt a lot from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

— Unknown

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

— Mandy Hale

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.

“Replace fear of the unknown, with curiosity.”

— Dany Gokey