#author-quotes

[thepersonalwords]

More than likely you’ll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there may be a diamond or two in what you thought was your old man’s bucket.

Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

[authenticity2025]

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better. Alan Dapre, The Finders

[quotelr]

I am what I have ever read

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

[thepersonalquotes]

If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

[lannegarrett]

I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.

[psalmieee]

Writers when it's time to write the story no one forced them to come up with in the first place 🙄

[asthedeathoflight]

Still thinking about none houses left grief, and while I understand where people are coming from, "it took me out of the world" is just... Really not a relevant criticism here. Like, that line is SUPPOSED to be jarring. It is supposed to be kind of darkly funny, but the point isnt for you to laugh. Its not trying to be a punchline. The point of that line IS to "take you out of the world" because the point is that *this world isn't what you thought it was.*

[theoptia]

Clementine von Radics, from “Letter from Anaïs Nin to Clementine von Radics”

Text ID: For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough.

[wolkenleere]

And I wondered what it was like to be chosen. I was never chosen. I was a maybe, a probably, sometimes even a definitely but never the one, never the chosen one.

Unknown

[maesetrova]

to say i miss you doesn't even begin to capture the despair your absence has brought me.

— mae s. (journal entry to the one i still love)

[briannapastorpoetry]

Good Grief by Brianna Pastor, available here!

[thepersonalwords]

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

[authenticity2025]

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on. Tupac Shakur

[quotelr]

Don't let your past dictate your future,

Chris Mentillo, A True Tale of Horror

[coldemergency]

Voldemort: Harry, I need you to give me my snake back

Harry: No! It’s my weekend, we have shared custody!

Voldemort: Nagini is not your child, she is a highly intelligent, extremely terrifying and deadly creature-

Nagini: boop the snoot

Harry: Aww, who’s my little danger noodle?

Voldemort:

Voldemort: What have you done to her

[zelkam]

"A-Cheng, come over here."