Nicky Lenling

“Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.”
― Christopher Paolini

“I gave up on everything in my life, including escaping my misery through my school-work.”
― Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

“but no matter how receptive his pretty and sweet speech therapist looked, no matter how softly and encouragingly she said, “Go ahead, try it. Say it,” still, the sounds came out like mooing.”
― Jane Smiley, Moo

“The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not strength, flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with promiscuous blondes.”
― Raymond Chandler