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"The best stories are the ones that make you feel less alone."
"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know."
"Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead."
"Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."
"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."
"What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?"
"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things."
"Sometimes, the hardest thing and the right thing are the same."
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
"I believe that art and storytelling have the power to change lives, to inspire, and to bring people together."
"The power of a good story is that it can transport you to another place, another time, and make you feel like you're part of something bigger."
"Illustrations are not just decorations for the text; they are an integral part of the storytelling process."
"I believe that every child has the right to access books and stories that reflect their own experiences and cultures."
"The best stories are the ones that make you think, that stay with you long after you've finished reading them."
"Sometimes, when I'm drawing, I feel like I'm in a kind of dream world, where anything can happen."