Andy

“Common tools go on top. The commonest of all, the bread of writing, is vocabulary.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I am so happy to be alive in this world
I would like to live forever, but I am
content not to. Seeing what I have seen
has filled me; believing what I believe
has filled me.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

“Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one. You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don’t know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love. Brothers, love is a teacher; but one must know how to acquire it, for it is hard to acquire, it is dearly bought, it is won slowly by long labor. For we must love not only occasionally, for a moment, but for ever. Every one can love occasionally, even the wicked can.”
― Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov