Quotes About Inspiration

Porque um dia com leitura é sempre um pouquinho melhor do que um dia sem leitura, e eu desejo a você uma infinidade de dias maravilhosos.

Up on the Rooftops

read. Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days.

Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days.

Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days. Now

Baking is...Life. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes..

Books had been her solace when she was sad, her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it was broken, and encouraged her to hope when she was down.

Books were the best way Nina knew – apart from, sometimes, music – to breach the barrier; to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.

Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken.

I'd never heard of them, but at that moment, it was the best song I'd ever heard. I went out and bought Ten and listened to it on repeat. When I listened to track five, "Black," it was like I was there, in that moment all over again. After the summer was over, when I got back home, I went to the music store and bought the sheet music and learned to play it on the piano. I thought one day I could accompany Conrad and we could be, like, a band.

Victory is ten times sweeter for the underdog.

It doesn't work like that. You don't just pick your song. The song picks you. Like the Sorting Hat.

So that's where I get it from. My dad. He lives in a fantasy world.

My best advice is to first write for yourself and stay in your story and just pour all of your good stuff and bad stuff into it. By 'stuff,' I mean all the experiences and pleasures and little hurts that make up a life. Because even (and especially) the really hard experiences are worth having, if you can channel those emotions into something beautiful.

To picture him, sitting at his desk at home, scribbling away with a pen and paper, endears him to me so completely. It gives me shivers. Currents of electricity from my scalp down to my toes.

In truth, if Kitty's anyone, she's a Jefferson. Wily, stylish, quick with a comeback. Margot's an Angelica, no question. She's been sailing her own ship since she was a little girl. She's always known who she was and what she wanted. I suppose I'm an Eliza, though I'd much rather be an Angelica. In truth I'm probably And Peggy. But I don't want to be the And Peggy of my own story. I want to be the Hamilton.

I've got my Motown girl-group music playing, and my supplies are laid out all around me in a semicircle. My heart hole punch, pages and pages of scrapbook paper, pictures I've cut out of magazines, glue gun, my tape dispenser with all my different colored washi tapes. Souvenirs like the playbill from when we saw Wicked in New York, receipts, pictures. Ribbon, buttons, stickers, charms. A good scrapbook has texture. It's thick and chunky and doesn't close all the way.

Even though Margot is only two years older than me, I look up to her more than anybody.

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog." -Belly

If not for you, I would not have written this book. Truly, this one is for you.

Supongo que cualquier cosa puede convertirse en ordinario o común si lo haces suficientes veces, pero mi esperanza es que esto nunca lo sea. No para nosotros.