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.
"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 I’m totally miserable." - Ashton Irwin
"Be nice to people because nobody likes an asshole." - Darren Criss
"Courage." and “You matter.” - Glee
"Courage isn’t the absence of fear…It’s the knowledge that there’s just something more important than being scared. And you jump anyway." - CP Coulter’s 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 it’s 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 you’re 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 you’re real, shabbiness doesn’t matter." - The Velveteen Rabbit
"I wanna not be scared; I want to feel powerful." - Allison Argent
"Being happy doesn’t mean that everything’s perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections." - Skins
"We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the power we choose to act on. That’s 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
“One day, everything will be ok in the end. If it’s not ok, it’s not the end.” - Tom Fletcher
"When you love someone it’s 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 they’ve never cried for a fictional character, then they’ve never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they’ve never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they’ve missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn’t mean it doesn’t contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears." - Cassandra Clare
There’s a whole bunch more quotes from Unsaid Things by McFly that I adore but don’t 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:
"Everyone’s crazy. Everyone has to struggle and fight. They just haven’t realized it yet. At least you have."
"You can’t fix other people until you fix yourself."
"Every session you say that I need to love myself, to like myself more. For months now, you’re 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 you’re on your own, it’s too embarrassing to sit and do nothing. You’ve got to look busy, like you don’t 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:
“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
"Seriously. Look at you. You’ve got your shit together, you’re not scared of anything. I’m scared of everything. And I’m crazy. Like maybe you think I’m 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, I’m a complete disaster.”
“Just… isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”“It sets a dangerous precedent.”“For avoiding pain?”“For avoiding life.”
“You give away nice like it doesn’t cost you anything.”
“Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.”
“It’s just… everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn’t matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.”
“That’s the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.”
“I’d rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.”
“I always get lost in the library,’ he said, ‘no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it’s getting to know me and revealing new passages.”
"Nothing can break me unless I let it."
So sorry, I have too many. That’s a pretty narrowed down list though.