“I’m not even that upset about the rejection any more. What bothers me most is that I haven’t got to the end of my story, and I can’t start over with someone else, it’s too hard.”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train
“Sometimes the most beautiful moments in our lives are things that hurt badly at the time. We only see them for what they really were when we stand at the very end and look back.”
― The Love That Split the World
― The Love That Split the World
“The body knows. When your heart sinks. When you feel sick to your gut. When something blossoms in your chest. When your brain gloriously pops. That’s your body telling you the One True Thing. Listen to it.”
― Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes
― Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes
“It’s folly to measure your success in money or fame. Success is measured only by your ability to say yes to these two questions: Did I do the work I needed to do? Did I give it everything I had?”
― Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes
― Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes
“Cultivate an understanding that life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we’re all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.”
― Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes
― Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes
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