"Let's fade away together one dream at a time" - Fall Out Boy, "Where Did the Party Go"

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"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself." -- Mrs. Whatsit, "A Wrinkle in Time"

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The writer's muse in six words:  "Demanding at best, elusive at worst."

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"You think women are weak? Women are forged of iron. My body, it has bled and blazed and broken, and yet it beats on. I am iron. A little rusted, perhaps, but still I endure."  -- someone's grandma via Tumblr

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I try to write sometimes.  When not attempting to write I can be found attempting to art, listening to music, or cringing at pictures of Bill Hader.  If I write a story you like and then suddenly abandon it, please feel free to yell at me.  I need the motivation.

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"Don't apologize for having an opinion.  Apologize when you're rude about it."
-- Patrick Stump

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"[I] sat down at the computer, and I wrote my way out of the labyrinth."
--Miles "Pudge" Halter, Looking For Alaska

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"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
--Ray Bradbury

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"[A novel is] a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it."  --Maggie Stiefvater