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"Every city has its own heartbeat, and if you listen closely, you can hear its stories."
"The desert teaches you that emptiness can be full of meaning, if only you learn to read the silence."
"When you describe a city, you betray it. The truth is always in the alleyways you omit."
"A good novel should unsettle you, make you question what you thought you knew."
"To understand a people, you must first understand their stories."
"Truth is like the sun; you can shut it out for a time, but it's not going away."
"A book is a mirror; if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a sage to look out."
"You don't have to be perfect to be amazing."
"Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life and said, 'I'm here for you,' and proved it."
"You can't always get what you want, but sometimes, you get what you need."
"It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you."
"The truth is, you never know for sure what's coming next."
"Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth."
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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.
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.
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.
Writing is an act of courage—you have to be willing to fail.
A good story makes you feel less alone.