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“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.”
― Chris Colfer

“Si el universo es tan infinito y aun así yo estoy aquí para descubrirlo, tiene que ser porque mi existencia es importante.”
― Claudia Ramirez, El príncipe del sol

“Sólo podía pensar que ese beso se sentía como el sol. ¿Y cómo se podía vivir sin sol?”
― Claudia Ramírez, El príncipe del sol

“We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Hit. The fucking. Bag. Jesus."

I hit it. Pretty hard. My bicep wobbles at contact.

"There ya go. Again."

I hit it again.

"Add a sound."

I hit it again, silent.

"Listen to me. Let the sound out, however it comes out."

I hit it again and emit this high-pitched squeal that would make me laugh if it didn't carry with it my entire broken heart. And Max doesn't laugh either.”
― Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens

“I don't know. I mean, it's not all beautifully harmonic, this world we find ourselves in. Clearly. There's shit music, and sometimes the melody goes away completely. There's silence and dissonant chord that cringe your ears. But the synchronicity of a perfectly created chorus? And the fact that you never know when one is coming? And that amazing feeling, the first time you hear a song and now it's going to be with you forever?
I have to think that's worth everything.”
― Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens

“The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing. Acting”
― Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens

“A moment later he grinned again. “You laugh now, my beautiful Ava, but you just wait - the fates have something special lined up for us. You’ll see!”
― Roxanna C. Revell, Because of Hattie

“Life and Death. Love and Loss. Light and Dark. This is the divide her life had taken, and one that she was completely and utterly lost in. Suffocated in.”
― Mallory McCartney, Queen to Ashes

“... she was a ghost amongst the living.”
― Mallory McCartney, Queen to Ashes

“It was a great weight, the power of knowledge”
― Mallory McCartney, Queen to Ashes

“Sleep had not been a friend of mine since I was a child, for when I slept, I dreamt, and it was in my dreams that the masked man waited and watched.”
― Shira Behore, My Brother's Spare

“It’s strange how a raging heart can blister and burn, and in a single moment, suddenly turn to ice.”
― Shira Behore, My Brother's Spare

“To be eternally trapped in a dream or to never be able to dream at all.” He murmured under his breath, gloved hands stilling on a paper toward the end of the pile. “I wonder which would be more miserable.”
― Shira Behore, My Brother's Spare

“The gas station had already cut so many corners on safety that it was practically a circle,”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One

“A couple gnomes showed up right outside the back door, and I left them where I found them because one of them was holding a steak knife and I don’t need that kind of crazy in my life.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One

“No, dude, I’m working at a shitty gas station in the middle of nowhere and I’m perfectly happy being miserable until I die. Good day, sir.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“They don’t know how hard they are working or how much of their energy is going into just surviving. They don’t know that living is not supposed to be that hard. Too often, like the frog, by the time they discover this is not the way it’s supposed to be they’re already depleted, depressed, or overwhelmed.”
― Sari Solden, MS, Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life

“Other women, even if they’ve had little support in high school, still manage to go to college. Unfortunately, because they have no idea what is wrong and what accommodations they could get to succeed, they are soon overwhelmed and either drop out or change schools several times. Others continue to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol to counteract their low self-esteem and bring them some form of needed relaxation, as well as a way to feel focused. Other young women might act out sexually with multiple partners or even tolerate destructive relationships in order to have the security of some kind of structure to come up against.”
― Sari Solden, MS, Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life

“Ultimately what I’m talking about is living with controlled disorder, not trying to get rid of it or waiting to get over it. It is not done in a day, and it is not done with medication alone (although it is usually not done without it). You need to ask yourself, “How can I make my life work? How can I make my relationships work? How can I make my career meaningful?” If it means doing things a bit differently than other people, then be different; it takes courage to break through the barriers of shame and guilt to ask for support. If it means breaking the mold, then break it; it takes courage to accept that you can’t do what other people can do. If it means challenging the “way it’s always been,” then challenge it; it takes courage to celebrate that you can often do what other people can’t.”
― Sari Solden, MS, Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life

“Women with AD/HD also sometimes have difficulty with their relationships when invited to parties or family gatherings. Quite often they feel bombarded by too much stimulation, especially women without hyperactivity, and therefore withdraw, sometimes offending people without intending to as we discussed in earlier Chapter 9. They feel overloaded and exhausted, and they can’t keep up. They might have difficulty carrying on a good conversation, trying to think of what to say in the middle of so much activity. Many women with AD/HD mysteriously retreat to another room, become quiet, upset or withdrawn, or just don’t show up for these kinds of events. All these responses may give the message to others that you don’t care about them. They don’t know that you’re having a hard time or why.”
― Sari Solden, MS, Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life

“Because their discrepancies are much larger, people with hidden disorders are confusing to themselves and perplexing to other people. Because their range can be very wide, individuals can’t easily encompass and incorporate both their strengths and their weaknesses into their self-image. This is especially true before they know the nature of this challenge.”
― Sari Solden, MS, Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life

“As one client of mine said when it finally dawned on her that her friend had free time on the weekends, “You mean this woman doesn’t have six months worth of unfolded clothes piling up around the house? She doesn’t have stacks of unopened mail to wade through or unpaid bills to confront? You mean she’s not constantly worried that the phone or electricity will be turned off or that the rent check will bounce?”
― Sari Solden, Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets