“I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you."
Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
André Gide, Autumn Leaves
"Get busy living, or get busy dying."
Stephen King, Different Seasons
“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
Pierce Brown, Golden Son
"No person, no matter how important society deems their relationship to you, has the right to denounce you for who you are.”
Tyler Oakley, Binge
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
"It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason."
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
"If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives."
Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator
"All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time."