A week feels like a year when you're seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.
—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir
This is what a total breakdown must be. You find yourself standing somewhere you shouldn't be, doing something so out of character that you wonder if you've become someone else entirely.
—Gilly Macmillan in Burnt Paper Sky
Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
—Terry Pratchett
Expressions like "the good ole days" implied that life used to be of a higher quality than it is now, but I think everything looks better in retrospect.
—Penelope Douglas in Rival
Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter.
—Tarryn Fisher in F*ck Love
The average person thinks he isn't.
—Father Larry Lorenzoni
Isn't it such a tragic thing. When you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't.
—Rupi Kaur in Milk and Honey
I don't know how I got to be thirty. I don't feel thirty, the way I felt so definitely nine, and thirteen, and twenty-one.
—Rachel Khong in Vitamin
Do you ever feel like what's happening at this moment will never happen again? Like you could never repeat it, no matter how hard you tried?
—Jennifer E. Smith in Field Notes on Love
Low self-esteem is the belief that we are not good or worthy enough. It's a self-perception. You can be wealthy, beautiful, or well-liked by others and still don't feel good about yourself. The way other people perceive you doesn't affect your self-esteem. It's how you perceive yourself that matters.
—Yong Kang Chan in Empty Your Cup