Jen Scott

“His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway”
― Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee

“For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Serpent's Shadow

“You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“People who knew me and sympathized with me were determined to set me up with the other people they sympathized with and were always surprised when I would turn down their offer of what they thought of as romantic charity. “What’s the harm?” they would ask me, truly surprised. The harm, besides those hours that actually do matter when you barely have one night off every couple of weeks, is the little mark you get on you every time you open up a door to a hope and then close it fast in disappointment. It leaves a nick, or a dent, and those nicks and dents are not invisible. I used to see them all the time.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories