"If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important."

“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?”

“When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing.”

“I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.”

“When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.”

“If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.”

“Leo and I are kindred spirits — we’re cut from the same cloth,”

“Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

“people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.”

Source : Sonia Johnson (1989). “Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution”, Wildfire Books