Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

“What I Found in My Desk A ripe peach with an ugly bruise, a pair of stinky tennis shoes, a day-old ham-and-cheese on rye,…

— Bruce Lansky

“It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It was never…

— Eudora Welty

“What messes us up a lot in this life is setting our expectations way too high and then being ashamed when we fail. What…

— Comic Strip Mama

“One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I've thrown in my lot with…

— David Guterson

“Every now and then you run up on one of those days when everything’s in vain … a stone bummer from start to finish;…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“I've become convinced that our lives are shaped less by the mistakes we make than when we make them. There is less elasticity now.…

— Dani Shapiro

“The toughest habits to break are the ones we take with us from childhood.”

— Charles F. Glassman

“Sometimes you work as hard as you can on something, and still the cake does not rise. Sometimes the cake is better than you…

— Neil Gaiman

“Work harder so that our sweat would flow over the tears of failures”

— Vignesh S

“If the reason you breathe is the goal that you see, then you'll never be satisfied. Cause what's the reward when perfection is flawed…

— Hellen Trevillion

“It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their…

— Lauren Oliver

“The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. those I don't have but I have learned…

— Wallace Stegner