Melissa

“Most dangerously of all, such thinking assumes that if you cannot win, then you must not continue to play.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Our appointment with life is in the present moment. The place of our appointment is right here, in this very place.” Living in a culture that is always encouraging us to plan for the future, it is no easy task to develop the capacity “to be here now.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren’t based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .’ She searched for the appropriate term and found it. ‘A load of bullshit.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It was a glorious time for pop culture, the decade of Nirvana and Lollapalooza and Clueless and My So-Called Life and Sassy and Pulp Fiction and Greg Maddux and Garth Brooks and Green Day and Drew and Dre and Snoop and Wayne’s World. It was the decade Johnny Depp got his Winona Forever tattoo, the decade Beavis and Butthead got butt-shaped tattoos on their butts.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape