• "If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives." -Lemony Snicket
• "‘Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave."' -Coraline
• "Master of the Delightfully Sinister" -on Ronald Dahl
• "Master of Macabre" -on E.A.P.
• “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” -Anonymous
• “Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.” -Ray Bradbury
• i'm so glad i live in a world where there are octobers -Anne of Green Gables
• "The last thing my mother said to me was, ‘SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.’ I’ve always liked that, and I’ve always tried to live up to it" -Susan Tyrrell
• "I’m not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else. -aubrey plaza
• “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.” —Andy Warhol
• “Let go of your need for perfection, just seek to be present in everything you do”
• there has never been a sadness that can't be cured by breakfast food
• water drowns fire, floods earth, and escapes through air
• “Through all the shit, shines the small ray of hope that lives in the common sense of few. Music, dance, theatre, and the visual arts; the forms of expression, the arts of hope. This is where I think I fit in.”

— Keith Haring, Journals

• “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water can wear away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

— Margaret Atwood, from The Penelopiad

• to mirth, to merrymaking, to manslaughter
• "Keep up your heart in all hopelessness, and trust yet a little longer."
• "There are no guarantees. There are no promises, but there is you, and strength inside to fight for recovery. And always there is hope." -Gilda Radner
• "Remember: 5 months is not eternity. 2 months is not eternity. Even if it looks that way now." -Sylvia Plath