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  • #1
    José N. Harris
    “Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.”
    José N. Harris, Mi Vida

  • #2
    Stephanie Kallos
    “Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves on the edgesof her heart, she was sure of it.”
    Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You
    tags: drama

  • #3
    Jodi Picoult
    “If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”
    Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

  • #4
    Deb Caletti
    “It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #5
    Kristina McMorris
    “The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”
    Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

  • #6
    Steve Maraboli
    “Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #7
    Sue Grafton
    “You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”
    Sue Grafton, T is for Trespass

  • #8
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

  • #9
    Khaled Hosseini
    “It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #10
    John Irving
    “Half my life is an act of revision.”
    John Irving

  • #11
    Friedrich Schiller
    “Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
    Friedrich Schiller

  • #12
    “I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random...that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again."
    -p150, NOTES TO SELF”
    Avery Sawyer, Notes to Self

  • #13
    Emily Giffin
    “What if two people want to be your partner, then what?”
    Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

  • #14
    “It's going to be okay. That's what everyone says when they really have no idea how it's going to be.”
    Avery Sawyer, Notes to Self

  • #15
    “I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.”
    Humphrey Bogart
    tags: drama

  • #16
    “The second he slipped inside of me, all I'd doubted, questioned, or feared evaporated, leaving me with one single, definite truth--I'd fallen in love with him in an all-consuming blaze that would blind me if I wasn't careful. We fit together like poorly cut puzzle pieces, but when the edges joined and were positioned just right, our scattered images came together to create a solid, deliberate piece of art, completely crystal clear and in focus. I was a goner.”
    Rachael Wade, Preservation

  • #17
    C.T. Todd
    “Crazy got nothin on us" Neesa”
    C.T. Todd

  • #18
    Laura Elizabeth
    “I am who I am and always shall be.”
    Laura Elizabeth, Farmer

  • #19
    Elizabeth Eulberg
    “It’s the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives.”
    Elizabeth Eulberg, Take a Bow

  • #20
    Vannessa Anderson
    "One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman’s selfhood and her dreams."

    Mother to Sherlock, Mycroft, and Enola Holmes by author Nancy Springer

    Vannessagrace

  • #21
    McCartney Green
    “We are only victims if we allow ourselves to be.”
    McCartney Green, Dandelions Never Die

  • #22
    Elizabeth Bear
    “Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.”
    Elizabeth Bear, Whiskey and Water

  • #24
    Marja McGraw
    “Drama is real life – with the dull parts left out.” Alfred Hitchcock”
    Marja McGraw

  • #25
    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”
    Henry Ford

  • #26
    Brandi L. Bates
    “You settle for less, you get less.”
    Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

  • #27
    Brandi L. Bates
    “When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise.”
    Brandi L. Bates

  • #28
    Brandi L. Bates
    “Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.”
    Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

  • #29
    Richard Bach
    “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
    Listen to it carefully.”
    Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

  • #30
    “In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was.”
    Donna Lynn Hope

  • #31
    Dennis Prager
    “People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.”
    Dennis Prager, Think a Second Time: A Philosopher's Analysis of Morality, God, Evil, and the Holocaust



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