“Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.”
― Falling Sideways
― Falling Sideways
“What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.”
― Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
― Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
― I Don't Remember You
― I Don't Remember You
“Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you.”
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“In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.”
― If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
― If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
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