the Moody Reader

Read to your hearts content.

[moodybetty]

“We all need to lose ourselves in a crowd once in a while.”

[moodybetty]

Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow. Forever changed. I am forever changed

All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven

[moodybetty]

I will not deny this happiness. Because if happiness feels real, it almost doesn't matter if it's real or not.

Another Day, David Levithan

[moodybetty]

Flat-out Love, Jessica Park

[moodybetty]

You can't change the rules and think everyone else is just going to keep playing.

Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

[moodybetty]

You only get one life. I've just made a decision to change things a bit and spend what's left of mine looking after me for a change.

Bridget Jones' Diary, Helen Fielding

[gublernation]

try to make at least one person smile everyday

[moodybetty]

Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.

Lost and Found, Nicole Williams

[moodybetty]

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

Golden, Jessi Kirby

[wordsthat-speak]

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Thomas Moore (via artistontheinside)

[moodybetty]

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

What Happened to Goodbye, Sarah Dessen

[moodybetty]

There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead.

What Happened to Goodbye, Sarah Dessen

[spacetimebrokenhearts]

'Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, 'You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail…they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.'

Sarah Dessen (via spacetimebrokenhearts)

[moodybetty]

Connecting with people is more important than outshining them.

Forget Me Not, Carolee Dean

[urs-uriarte]

[moodybetty]

and cuddle with all those books....

[moodybetty]

Anna: Olaf, you're melting! Olaf the Snowman: Some people are worth melting for.

Frozen

[moodybetty]

Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because that's what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.

The Survival Kit, Donna Freitas