““You must never feel badly about making mistakes,” explained Reason quietly, “as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.””—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth. Highlighted
““If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you’ll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won’t have the time. For there’s always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.””—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth. Highlighted
“One recent study shows that for people who have a high need to feel unique (a common characteristic of artists and innovators), social rejection causes them to score higher on tests of creativity. The outsider identity, which rejection reinforces, nurtures their ability to innovate.”—Lisa A. Phillips, Unrequited. Highlighted
““The seeker has a confirmation bias, looking for positive signs and discounting the negative ones,” Baumeister said. “If there’s ambivalence, it’s going to prolong the hope, because there are enough positives to seize on and overinterpret. The negatives you can brush aside.””—Lisa A. Phillips, Unrequited. Highlighted
““We’re always looking for that missing piece in ourselves,” said Jungian analyst Jacqueline Wright. “That ideal lover or person that we’re looking for holds a quality that we don’t recognize or express in ourselves.””—Lisa A. Phillips, Unrequited. Highlighted
“When we’re caught up in unsatisfied desire, we can write the story of our love ... This is fundamentally a creative act, often full of pleasure at first ... yet being together means facing reality, which will probably fall short of the self-centered fantasy.”—Lisa A. Phillips, Unrequited. Highlighted
“God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.”—Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl. Highlighted
“Of course he didn’t want to discuss what had just happened. Because nothing had happened. We shook hands. I imagined the rest.”—Hazel Hayes, Better by Far. Highlighted
“I could feel his breath, his heart, which was beating too hard and too fast for him to be sleeping.”—Hazel Hayes, Better by Far. Highlighted
“My first thought should be How kind, but instead I think, How dare you.”—Hazel Hayes, Better by Far. Highlighted
“I wanted a fix. A hit. A tiny little taste of you. Instead, I feel like a spider in an empty web, waiting for vibrations that never come. A single strum on one silk strand would do. A gentle hum in the gossamer. But all is quiet. All is still. And another lonely week looms large.”—Hazel Hayes, Better by Far. Highlighted
“had I not been struck by the upside-down image of my frilly ankle socks, once white, now turning bright red. Like a cartoon animal who doesn’t fall until they notice that the ground is gone, the sight of my own blood made me suddenly aware of the searing pain in my heels. I tore off my shiny black shoes and peeled the blood-soaked socks from my feet before righting myself and continuing my search barefoot.”—Hazel Hayes, Better by Far. Highlighted
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