Makrinos Mental Health Quotes & Sayings

Kestrel remembered how it felt to lose to her father at Bite and Sting, at Borderlands, at anything he chose to play. The dig at her pride. A hurt certainty that she'd never be able to prove herself to him. Embarrassment for wanting to prove herself.

She remembered her hands clinging to his jacket, her whole self reduced to two claws as she pleaded with him.

War wasn't a game, but she wanted badly to make her father know how it felt to lose. — Marie Rutkoski

You know how they say Black Flag got in a van, and they brought punk rock to the world? The Strokes got on a bus, and they brought "downtown cool" to the world. Along with the Internet, they were changing everything, not just music. They were changing attitudes. The Strokes were making New York travel with them. I saw kids in Connecticut and Maine and Philadelphia and DC looking like they had just been drinking on Avenue A all night. Sixteen-year-old kids in white belts and Converse Chuck Taylors with the greasy hair - hair that had been clean a week ago. Those kids had probably never even smelled the inside of a thrift store before Is This It came out. They found a band that they wanted to be like. They found their band. APRIL — Lizzy Goodman

The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy. — Venita VanCaspel

I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them. — Frank Laubach

The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't. — Martin Freeman

The search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style. — Ada Louise Huxtable

I always wanted to be respected for my mind ... — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship. — Olga Kurylenko