Nelly

“The challenge,’ he explained, ‘is to realize that something is fulfilling because we determine it’s fulfilling. Not because someone else tells us it is.”
― John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

“God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing”
― Dean Koontz, The Complete Odd Thomas Series

“that people are most afraid of things they don’t understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn’t mean it wouldn’t still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land

“Famous people have more money … and less freedom; they have more choices … and less honesty. Everything is a trade-off. And when we let the media choose our heroes for us, we are lost already.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island