It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own needs.

The time to build your future is in your teenage years and your 20s, but equally, in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.

You don’t need to provide your parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings.

They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.

Mistakes are part of life. And yet, for some reason, most parents in this world, wish their children made no mistakes at all, or as little as possible.

If parents want “success stories” to share at gatherings they should provide themselves with those, and they should not use their children for that purpose.

It’s entirely on our children to build their best futures. Not on us, parents. And we should be imprinting this message on our children’s brains from as early as possible.

They (parents) have been doing this (imposing their beliefs about life on you) since you were born. That’s more than enough to establish a habit.

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.

We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.

...make sure if you're working hard at something it's in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

I wanna know how many buttons I'm going to get at meet and greets now.

Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?