Quote by John Steinbeck

“Lee put his arm around the broad shoulders to comfort him. "You're growing up. Maybe that's it," he said softly. "Sometimes I think the…

— John Steinbeck

“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All…

— Lemony Snicket

“In a low state of mind, everything seems really bad and worse than it probably is.”

— Richard Carlson

“Grow up. This is real. The world is ugly and nasty and fucked up, and so are we.”

— Leah Raeder

“I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Both of us watch the purification happen, and I wonder if he is thinking what I am: that it would be nice if life…

— Veronica Roth

“The dirt,” he says, his voice strangely peaceful. “What about it?” she asks. “It’s dirty.”

— Julianna Baggott

“No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.”

— Debasish Mridha

“But the truth is that we’re all just stumbling around in the dark. Sometimes we hit something terrible.”

— Susan Ee

“There is nothing better than this,” he said, and I worried he was right. I worried that once something had entered you, it would…

— Alison Espach

“I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.”

— Kiera Van Gelder

“Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.”

— Jim Butcher