Haley M

“Lowered expectations don’t invite disappointment. They expect the imperfect in all of us.”
― Lauren Kate, By Any Other Name

“There have been so many times when I was scared to speak up because I was afraid somebody would think I was crazy. But I’ve learned that lesson now, the hard way. You have to speak the thing that you’re feeling, even if it scares you. You have to tell your story. You have to raise your voice.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly, that just to be alive, is a grand thing. Agatha Christie, 1890–1976”
― Abby Jimenez, Life's Too Short

“I had a theory that we gravitate toward the stories we need in life. Whatever we’re longing for—adventure, excitement, emotion, connection—we turn to stories that help us find it. Whatever questions we’re struggling with—sometimes questions so deep, we don’t even really know we’re asking them—we look for answers in stories.”
― Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers