Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.
I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.
What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you? Thank you. You are very kind.
There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.
I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?
Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
[...] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.
To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself
Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.
Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks
Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.
Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.
Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself
My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.
if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.
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