Friday, May 11, 2012

i make my own sunshine ...

"Look at what isn't there. It's the only way you might survive."
-from The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan

"You can never be free of your shadow -- your sheut. All living beings have them. ... The sheut is not just a physical shadow. It's a magical projection -- the silhouette of the soul."
-from The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan

"Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned."
-from The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan

"I never liked being thwarted. Whenever I felt like something was impossible, I usually tried even harder out of sheer stubbornness."
-from The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan

"Befriending psychopaths is one of our specialties."
-from The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan

"Here's some free advice: Don't walk towards chaos."
-from The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan

"Together, we tried to find calm in the chaos. I focused on the most peaceful, well-ordered moments of my life."
-from The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan

"Funny how that works: sometimes you don't really understand something until you destroy it."
-from The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan

"A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries."
-from The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan

"For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it."
-from The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan

Everything is wonderful
Everything is great
Free as a bird singing outside my window pane
Got a fresh new start
It's a brand new day
And I've got lots of love to give away
It don't matter if it's raining, nothing can faze me
I make my own sunshine
And if you think you can break me,
Baby you're crazy
I make my own sunshine
-"I Make My Own Sunshine" by Alyssa Bonagura

"'The very first time I saw you,' Daniel continued, 'it wasn't any different than any other time I've seen you since. the world was newer, but you were just the same. It was--' 'Love at first sight.' That part she knew. He nodded. 'Just like always.'"
-from Torment (Fallen #2) by Lauren Kate

"When we summon Announcers, we're making a sort of wish. Not a wish for anything material, but a wish to better understand the world, our role in it, and what's to become of us."
-from Torment (Fallen #2) by Lauren Kate

"Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometime it pays to just have a little faith."
-from Torment (Fallen #2) by Lauren Kate

"If I could go back in time and talk to my twenty-year-old self, the first thing I would say is: 'Lose the perm.' Secondly I would say: "Relax. Really. Just relax. Don't sweat it.' I can't remember a time when I wasn't anxious and fearful that the parade would pass me by. And I was sure there was someone or something outside of myself with all the answers. I had a driving, anxiety-filled ambition. ... I wanted to belong and feel like I was valued and seen."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

"As I look back, the road to where I am today has been a series of happy accidents I was either smart or stupid enough to take advantage of. I thought I had to have a plan, a strategy. Turns out I just had to be ready and willing to take chances, look at what's right in front of me, and put my heart into everything I do."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

"We were all swept up in the electricity of putting on this show. We were more focused, disciplined, and committed than we had ever been in our young lives. We had all pitched in to build the set together, and showed up after school for rehearsals. When we finally performed, no one missed a line or a cue. We were a team, and we supported one another. Being a part of this group of fellow actors, feeling needed and valued and there for one another, was a high I would chase for the rest of my life."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

"I had gone to great lengths to please people who never had any intention of pleasing me back or giving me what I wanted."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

"All my life, I'd felt I was at the mercy of people and circumstances; I'd had the sense that life was happening to me. This book presented the jaw-dropping idea that I had the power to consciously choose how I see the world and the people around me, and that my life could be different if I made more powerful choices."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

"What I came to know was that it was the shadow, the great unclaimed areas of the psyche, that my best work would come out of. If I feel proud of anything I've done in my acting career, it came from the stuff that is hard to look at; stuff that feels sticky and dark. These parts tend to want to stay far from the light of day, as they conjure fear or shame. ... I hadn't yet learned how valuable these places are creatively."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

"I do enjoy the spotlight, but only for moments at a time, and I would prefer to have others in it with me. it's one thing when you're sharing performance anxiety with a group, and another when you're out there all by your lonesome."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

"I didn't have time to think and let the fear stop me. I put my head down like a bull and barreled forward."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

"I didn't know how to fall in love with an actual person, but boy could I create a great one in my imagination."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

"After one evening with someone, even someone this wonderful, I had no business deciding I'd found my soul mate. And yet that was what I was feeling."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

"The way I see it, these accidents of fate were actually my life taking care of me."
-from Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch