Quote by Roberto Bolaño

“At least I had one thing going for me: I was a realist.”

— William T. Vollmann

“If you join them, You will always be At odds with them And everything they stand for.”

— Joseph Ridgwell

“If you have not suffered opposition in the journey of life, then, you are not real.”

— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

“It was a moment when I understood that all of us have to be more considerate of the realities of the bodies of others.”

— Roxane Gay

“I believe that we exist to fully participate in the creation of our own lives.”

— Toni Sorenson

“A realist is a slave to reality.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I needed to refocus and get my act together.”

— Martina Navratilova

“Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.”

— David Levithan

“I like to play with perceptions and stretch the bounds of believability.”

— Ellison James

“To become, you must first believe.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I had successfully attended an event by myself. I had done something that was important to me, regardless of the fact that no one…

— Geva Salerno

“...I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that…

— Allison Winn Scotch