#quotes by authors

[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.

[thepersonalwords]

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

[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)

[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

[briannapastorpoetry]

Good Grief by Brianna Pastor, available here!

[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."

[ao3-crack]

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[reveuseinflorence]

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."

- Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5

[quotelr]

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!

Mehmet Murat ildan

[vivicantstudy]

[emberwhite]

"It was not the first days, weeks, or months that tested a creator's resolve, nor was it the final stages either; it was always the middle where hopes and aspiring creations would live or die based on solely one thing: its irrational stubbornness to exist."

-The Drunk, The Gambler, and The Lover

A transfem novella about loneliness, isolation, and addiction, all stemming from the feeling of being unseen and misunderstood

Out now on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

(Or just message me for a free copy.)