Steph

“My main characters are more extensions of my social circle than figments of my imagination. Each is fleshed out with characteristics of myself or my loved ones, endowed with unwritten parts stitched together from my own experiences and the secrets of those closest to me. These embezzled backstories dictate my characters' actions as much as my own personal history decides my emotional responses. I don't invent my characters. I steal them from my surroundings. To be a writer is to be a life thief. Every day, I rob myself blind.”
― Cate Holahan, Lies She Told

“Evil's something you can decide to do every day, and it gets easier every time. But the more good you bring into the world, maybe the more the rest of the world would look like this. Like paradise.”
― Emily Henry, A Million Junes

“What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“Letting go is not forgetting. It's opening your eyes to the good that grew from the bad, the life that blooms from decay.”
― Emily Henry, A Million Junes