Amy

“..feeling is the place every story starts.”
― Dwight V. Swain, Techniques of the Selling Writer

“Dream with your heart.
Write with your soul.
But edit with your head.”
― Jennifer Spredemann

“So, I will leave you first. I will fabricate in my mind that something went wrong with you, and I'll believe it. And I'll leave. But something can't be wrong with all of them. What's the common denominator here?”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Stepping out of other people’s drama cycles was scary, weird, and difficult for me at first. I felt guilty for keeping the focus on myself, and I wondered how anyone could possibly survive without my overinvolvement in their lives. (Spoiler alert: They all survived. And I gradually started hanging out with healthier people.)”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, All the Way to the River