“How the hell do you sum up your sister in three minutes? She's your twin and your polar opposite. She's your constant companion and your competition. She's your best friend and the biggest bitch in the world. She's everything you wish you could be and everything you wish you weren't.”
“I've never felt a connection like this with anyone else... I don't even know how to explain it. I feel like I already knew you before I met you, and the first time I saw you, the first time I talked to you, was incidental, because the connection was already there --.”
“None of us is delicate enough to touch anyone else without hurting them a little bit.”
“If you are here because you think writing will always be fun, you're in for a disappointment. Writing -- real writing -- is among the most difficult work you will ever face in your life. The irony is that the harder you work at it, the harder it gets.”
“If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going.”
“It's your writing you guys. Follow it wherever it takes you. All you need to do is tell your truth.”
“The point of freewriting is to get past the voice inside your head that tells you your ideas aren't good enough, your words aren't good enough, you're no writer and so forth.”
“whatever does happen the way it’s supposed to? You don’t plan life, you just do it.”
“I think this is very strange --"
"All things are strange which are worth knowing (...).”
“The Bible says God’s mercies are new every morning. That’s what we have to hang on to if we’re going to stay strong together,”
“Lawrence could proceed no further with his jape. Holo looked at him as if stricken. “…That’s not fair,” he grumbled. “Mm-hm. Female privilege.”
“It's like a crime is an act that when you've committed one the act is over and you haven't changed inside. But when you commit a sin it's like you create a condition that you have to live in.”
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