Quotes To Remember

||Chapter Fifty-Two|| The one with empowering quotes

1. "I've survived a lot of things, and I'll probably survive this." -J.D. Salinger

2. "Being brave isn't supposed to be easy." -something i heard today that stuck with me

3. "The thing you are most afraid to write. Write that." -Nayyirah Waheed

4. "There is a thin semantic line separating weird and beautiful, and that line is covered in jellyfish." -Night Vale

5. "I am the architect of my own Destruction."

6. "Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." -Franz Kafka

7. "Maybe the wolf is in love with the moon, and every month it cries for a love it will never touch."

8. "Listen to your body. Talk to plants. Ignore people." -written on a wall somewhere

9. "One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. It hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don't."

10. "A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." -Madeleine l'Engle

11. "You know when sometimes you meet someone beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick? Then there's other people, and you meet them and you think 'Not bad, they're ok." And then you get to know them and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality is written all over it. And they just turn into something beautiful." -Amy Pond, Doctor Who series 6 (The Girl Who Waited)

12. "The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." -Homer, kind of, somehow, The Iliad

13. "Just because you're trash doesn't mean you can't do great things. It's called garbage can, not garbage cannot."

14. "Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't." -Bill Nye

15. 

"Well I looked my demons in the eyes

laid bare my chest, said

'do your best, destroy me, you see

i've been to hell and back so many times

i must admit you kind of bore me'"

16. "I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me."

17. "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers." -Margaret Atwood, "Homelanding" from Good Bones

18. "Sure ain't the first time, hope it ain't the last time. When all the work is done, by the light of the setting sun, we see what we've become, two of the lucky ones." -The Droge & Summers Band, Two of the Lucky Ones (zombielanf movie soundtrack)

a lot of these lack sources, which i am sorry for. i do not know who wrote/said them, but none of them are mine.