"Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is li..."
- Jandy Nelson
"This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of li..."
"... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern fo..."
- Jane Green
"Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain."
- Jane Austen
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the l..."
"Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them."
- Janet Fitch
"That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet."
"To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live"."
- Jane Evershed
"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."
- Marjane Satrapi
"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."
- Jane Hamilton