The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.
Forever be happy, never be content, and always know the difference.
Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.
There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail. . . only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.
An empowering perspective gives birth to an empowered life.
No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.
Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.
You can be as critical as you want of Black Lives Matter. I'm critical of him, too. But to say that they have caused shooting of police officers, I think is a bridge too far.
I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there were people who didn't have that. There are a lot of teens who haven't had as easy a childhood as me, and having literature that explores these "darker" parts helps relieve the burden and stress they may be feeling. As a writer, there is often a temptation to draw back when we write for teens - to preserve their innocence. But the reality is, if someone has already had that innocence taken in their life, then not writing about it is just brushing it under the rug.
He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became.
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.