Veronica Brown

“While we all grow and mature and change from that awkward little worm we were in high school, it is still a pretty consistent indicator of who we become as adult butterflies. High school sets a tone for how the next decade of your life plays out, good or bad. It is the first set of steps in your journey. If you want to know who you were as a person during this hormonal time, refer to your yearbook. You will find a theme and you will see a pattern. Most definitely, you will notice these themes and patterns carried on into your twenties and so on. Take those signatures serious.”
― Jennie Hoffer, Smile Like A Saint, Curse Like A Sailor: A Guide To Being One Classy Bitch

“Build your Fantasy Five. Figure out who influences you and who impresses you. Notice the common qualities that appear in your lineup. Those common qualities speak directly to who you are as a person and who you aspire to be. They serve as a guide for you to understand your own personal definition.”
― Jennie Hoffer, Smile Like A Saint, Curse Like A Sailor: A Guide To Being One Classy Bitch

“They departed in the form of white smoke, rose easily upward, waved their hands in parting, and viewed with pity all those who remained behind. Then they danced gaily in celebration of their new freedom, before disintegrating into the air.”
― Joseph Bau, Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?

“You don't have to concern yourself with other people's points of view. Once you can see that nothing others say or do is about you, it doesn't matter who gossips about you, who blames you, who rejects you, who disagree with your point of view. All the gossip doesn't affect you. You don't even bother to defend your point of view.

You let the dogs bark, and surely they will bark, and bark, and bark. So what? Whatever people say doesn't affect you because you are immune to their opinions and their emotional poison.”
― Janet Mills