Amanda

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice