30 Quotes by Emma Raveling

Fast food, fast money, shallow thinking, shallow interpretations. This is now what I deal with everyday. Art was meant to be about freedom, about having the courage to explore what it means to be human.

An artist's domain was private, a haven for practicing and experimenting, the one place where failure was still allowed.

The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.

To be ready does not mean it will be easy. It doesn't mean it will be smooth. It means that even when it's difficult, you have what it takes to survive.

Just because a hot guy likes you doesn’t mean you owe him anything. You don’t have to like him back and you don’t have to feel bad that you don’t like him back. Being friends is already pretty special because it means you trust him. If he’s worth keeping in your life, he’ll respect your choice either way.

I walked forward simply because there was no going back.

Our dreams are fluid, just as we are. They change as we change.

What drove me now was a force beyond elementals, beyond time.It was the force of a thousand years of history, the collected voices of generations of ondines, the desires of those who’d lived and died. It was the dreams of my mother, the regrets of my grandmother, the forgotten promise of every Irisavie back to the first.

The flower drifted, light and open, gliding a path through still water like the faint stirrings of a dream.