198 Quotes About Reality-check

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.

And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully.

Uncertainty is a temptress. We may try our best to avoid her. But what is certain is that at some point of time, she will find us. The only question that remains is whether like Medusa, she will paralyze you, or whether like one of the nine muses of ancient Greece, she will drive you to greater things.

If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended.

[...] if you don't know what you're running away from, chances are you'll bring it along anywhere you go.

How to get and keep men interested in you (A Guide for the Modern Woman): Put them in the “friend” or “fuck” zone. Leave them there.

To be in love at my age would mean not to have learnt anything at all.

People who’ve been hurt like hurting others [..]

No one tells you that you should never settle for anything less than what you want.