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“Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Fear

“It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy… Let's go exploring!”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

New Year, World

“You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.”

Arnold Lobel book Frog and Toad Together

Source: Frog and Toad Together

Home

“You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Kiss

“Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.”

William J. Bennett (1943) American politician

Cats, Business, Happiness

“Sometimes, Ms. Lane,” he said, “one must break with one’s past to embrace one’s future. It is never
an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims.
Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Variant: Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.
Source: Darkfever

Past, Future

“So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Thinking

“Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Love, World, Mountain, Personality

“Poppy had known for years that she was going to marry him. It was one of her two great ambitions, the other being to see the world. She just hadn't gotten around to informing James yet.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Secret Vampire

World

“It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Feeling, Nature, Happiness

“What am I going to do with you?
I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them.”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Forbidden Pleasure

“You can choose to die. You can choose to run… but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change… you're going to have to live.”

Kazuya Minekura (1975) Japanese manga artist

Change

“… he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

Smile

“Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Love, God, People

“If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

Home, Thinking

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Variant: Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk.
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Love, Change, Parting

“I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.”

Robyn Davidson (1950) Australian writer

Source: Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

Feeling

“I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

Mood, Dance

“Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.”

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

Life

“Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Variant: The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 28

Hell

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

Anita Desai (1937) Indian novelist

Parting

“I am going to love you now, slow and sweet, but when you come, I'm going to f*** you the way I need to. The way I've been dreaming about since the moment I saw you.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: The Dark Highlander

Love, Dreams, Way

“Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther… you've come to the end of things…”

Agatha Christie And Then There Were None

Source: And Then There Were None

“Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Family, Business, Weather

“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Night

“People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

People, Feeling

“No one can go back, but everyone can go forward.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Sadness

“Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.”

John Burdett (1951) British crime novelist

Source: Bangkok Tattoo

Fear

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day… You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning…”

Walter Mosley (1952) American writer

Forgetting

“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”

Gerald G. Jampolsky (1925) American writer and psychiatrist

Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear

Moving On, Peace, Forgiveness, Past

“In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

Source: Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger

Time

“As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”

Adele Parks (1969) British writer

Source: Young Wives' Tales

Learning, Past

“Who are you?" because even now, she couldn't let her questions go. "What are you?"
That face that wasn't a face smiled. It was the most terrible thing she'd ever see, ever. "Magnus" he said. "I'm the end.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

Smile, Question

“I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

Light, Night

“His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?"
I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.”

Lilith Saintcrow book Strange Angels

Source: Strange Angels

People

“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Sad, Wise, Deep, Depressing

“Never give up… No one knows what's going to happen next.”

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter

Variant: Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.

“The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.”

John Dewey book Experience and Education

Source: Experience and Education

Learning

“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

Sex, Nature, Parting

“The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

Age, Family, Cars, Girl

“Now I am going back
And I have ripped my hand
From your hand as I said I would
And I have made it this far…”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

“Answer me this, did you hesitate at all or did you see the giant, go ‘Wheee!’ and run toward it?”
“She ran toward it,” Juke quipped.
“He was biting people in half.”
“I rest my case,” Curran said. “A note wouldn’t have made any difference.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Shifts

People

“Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Life, Birth, Heart

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

Spring

“I am the son of Hades. I go where I wish. The darkness is my birthright.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Learning, Happiness

“Why are they going to disappear him?'
I don't know.'
It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

Sense

“If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me." -Hatsuharu”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

Source: Sailor Moon, Vol. 1

Love, Sadness, Feeling, Sleep

“We don't have to reveal everything to each other. It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that.”

Sophie Kinsella book Finding Audrey

Source: Finding Audrey

“I was in the shopping mall because that's where I go lately. For the last couple of weeks, I've been going there every day, trying to figure out why people go there. It's kind of a personal project.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

People, Personality

“It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war."
Defeat is worse."
I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

War, Home

“Stop being so…"
"Charming? Attractive? Irresistible?
"I'm going with arrogant.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bitter Blood

“Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Chasing the Prophecy

Faith, Knowledge, Decision

“most days go
nowhere
but the avoidance
of pain and
dissolution are
lovely.”

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Love, Pain

“Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!”

Joanne Harris (1964) British author

Death, Star, Birthday, Time

“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Source: An Autobiography

Children, School, Idea

“I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

World, Time, Waiting, Personality

“Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Source: The Rescue

People

“It's okay," I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, I'll go crack a rib or something so we can test it."
She groaned. "The horrible part is that I don't think you're joking.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Hurtful, Thinking, Parting

“I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Home, Cry

“Tall, aren't you?" she said.
"I didn't mean to be."
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.”

Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep

Source: The Big Sleep

Thinking

“So what are you going to wear to the apocalypse? I’m thinking something sparkly and transfixing.”-Nix”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: MacRieve

Thinking

“Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

“I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

People, Success

“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)

Life

“In there?'
She nodded.
'You want us to go into the tortoise?'
Another nod.
'It's alive.'
Another nod.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who’ve hurt you. (Kiara)
You’re doing that now. (Nykyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Pain, People, Hurt

“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”

James Baldwin book This Morning, This Evening, So Soon

Source: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon

People, Truth, Personality

“What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.”

Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States

Source: The Plague of Doves

History

“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Life, Marriage, Personality, Happiness

“Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that?”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Variant: Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.
Source: Gatsby Girls

Lie

“I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Waiting

“You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.”

“I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground… And so are you. So are we all.”

J.M. Coetzee book Disgrace

Source: Disgrace

Men, Sadness

“And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

People, Understanding

“If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable."
"Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Childhood

“Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Change, Past

“There are men you build a future with, Dani. And then there are men that you know, going in, that you're only making a memory with. I know the difference
.. Some memories are worth the price. I'll deal with it.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Men, Memory, Future

“It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Icebound Land

“Yotsuba: I’ll get revenge! … I’m going!

Jumbo (in a suffering manner): Yotsuba… please, come back alive…

Yotsuba (heroic): Alright. Even if I die… I’ll come back alive.

—–Yotsuba!”

Kiyohiko Azuma (1968) Japanese manga artist

Source: Yotsuba&!, Vol. 03

Revenge, Suffering

“That's why we're going to disrupt the lunch," she (Kat) said.

"You know," Angus said, "I've got a little C-four that I've been saving for a rainy--"

"We're not blowing up my company, Angus," Hale said.

"Righto. Carry on, Kitty.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Perfect Scoundrels

“When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

Sadness, Star

“And all the winds go sighing,
For sweet things dying”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 1
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Truth

“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

16 August 1925
Source: Enough Rope (1926)

Love, Life

“Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Heartbreaker

Change, Success

“The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. […] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Children, Angels, Confidence, Thinking

“There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.”

Richard Proenneke (1916–2003) American hermit

Source: One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

Sadness

“Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.”

Gus Van Sant (1952) American film director, producer, photographer and musician

Source: Good Will Hunting

Cute, Sleep, Night

“You create your own universe as you go along.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Universe

“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city… you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”

Samuel R. Delany book Dhalgren

Source: Dhalgren

Change, Housing, Personality

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

Life, Books, Reading

“My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it.

"Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?"

"Lydia," he said. "I apologize.”

Jaclyn Moriarty (1968) Australian writer

Source: The Year of Secret Assignments

Dogs, Time

“That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset.”

Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor

Source: Me of Little Faith

Religion

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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