127: What makes you happy?
Ashton Irwin, McFly, 5SOS, coffee shops, music, caffeine, seashores/shells, photography, finding a resonating lyric or book quote, discovering your favourite character and the little things about them that make you adore them, campfires and cozy hoodies and blankets
148: What is your favourite quote?
I have a lot, and usually change up my faves depending on my mood.Â
"Real bands save fans. Real fans save bands." - Michael Clifford
"Bands really help me, when people make me feel like shit, the bands I love get me through everything, in times when Iâm totally miserable." - Ashton Irwin
"Be nice to people because nobody likes an asshole." - Darren Criss
"Courage." and âYou matter.â - Glee
"Courage isnât the absence of fearâŚItâs the knowledge that thereâs just something more important than being scared. And you jump anyway." - CP Coulterâs Dalton
"Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend itâs still the mansion you remember, or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if youâre like me, you just keep chasing the storm. The problem with chasing the storm is it wears you down, breaks your spirit. Even the experts agree⌠a girl needs closure." - Veronica Mars
"When youâre real, shabbiness doesnât matter." - The Velveteen Rabbit
"I wanna not be scared; I want to feel powerful." - Allison Argent
"Being happy doesnât mean that everythingâs perfect. It means that youâve decided to look beyond the imperfections." - Skins
"Weâve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the power we choose to act on. Thatâs who we really are." - Sirius Black
"Ah, who cares what you look like anyway. Lets just all have some cake and everything will seem fine!" - Tom Fletcher
âOne day, everything will be ok in the end. If itâs not ok, itâs not the end.â - Tom Fletcher
"When you love someone itâs worth fighting for, no matter what the odds." - Aria Montgomery
"If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If theyâve never cried for a fictional character, then theyâve never loved one (and what a joy that is). If theyâve never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then theyâve missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesnât mean it doesnât contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears."Â - Cassandra Clare
Thereâs a whole bunch more quotes from Unsaid Things by McFly that I adore but donât want to list them all/look them up.
The same goes for The Mortal Instruments series because I always find hard-hitting quotes there.
My Mad Fat Diary always hit me hard:
"Everyoneâs crazy. Everyone has to struggle and fight. They just havenât realized it yet. At least you have."Â
"You canât fix other people until you fix yourself."Â
"Every session you say that I need to love myself, to like myself more. For months now, youâre like a broken record. But you never tell me how to start or when to start or where to start."
"Maybe I was wrong about the reason loners read so much, maybe they actually want to escape reality for a while, disappear into a different world."
"When youâre on your own, itâs too embarrassing to sit and do nothing. Youâve got to look busy, like you donât care that no one wants to talk to you."
I have a lot of favourite quotes from Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell which is basically my favourite novel at the moment:
âI donât trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am theyâre going to get tired of me and take off.â
"Seriously. Look at you. Youâve got your shit together, youâre not scared of anything. Iâm scared of everything. And Iâm crazy. Like maybe you think Iâm a little crazy, but I only ever let people see the tip of my crazy iceberg. Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and socially inept, Iâm a complete disaster.â
âJust⌠isnât giving up allowed sometimes? Isnât it okay to say, âThis really hurts, so Iâm going to stop tryingâ?ââIt sets a dangerous precedent.ââFor avoiding pain?ââFor avoiding life.â
âYou give away nice like it doesnât cost you anything.â
âSometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they canât quite keep up with gravity.â
âItâs just⌠everything. There are too many people. And I donât fit in. I donât know how to be. Nothing that Iâm good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesnât matterâand being good with words. And when those things do matter, itâs only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.â
âThatâs the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.â
âIâd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.â
âI always get lost in the library,â he said, âno matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like itâs getting to know me and revealing new passages.â
"Nothing can break me unless I let it."
So sorry, I have too many. Thatâs a pretty narrowed down list though.Â