Sam Lexow

“Enjoy memories, yes, but don't be a slave to who you wish you once had been.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“She seemed sorry in the same way a tank commander might be apologetic after destroying your house. He might be in the wrong. But he was still in a tank.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“I can compare sadness to a car because both are quite capable of running me over.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“I was unprepared in a truly hilarious fashion, but I have learned this about endeavor— that we are never prepared. We are always overwhelmed at some point. And I have learned that the human spirit is fierce, that it enables us to do things that we set out to do, the things that cannot be prepared for, the things we would never have set out to do if we had known what it would’ve taken at the start.”
― Tyson Motsenbocker, Where the Waves Turn Back: A Forty-Day Pilgrimage Along the California Coast