Words I live by, words I stole fair and square, and words that crawled out of my own dark. Steal them back if you dare — just spell my name right.
Devoted Sub — In Her Own Words
“Normal is a cage with the door wide open. Step out — amazing only lives out here.”
— Devoted Sub
“You’ll never know how fucking amazing you are if you spend your life trying to be normal.”
— Devoted Sub
“Couldn’t find my monsters on any shelf. So I wrote them.”
— Devoted Sub
“If the book you crave doesn’t exist yet, that’s your sign. Write it. I did.”
— Devoted Sub
“Run straight at the life you keep dreaming about. Don’t knock — it’s already yours.”
— Devoted Sub
“No act of kindness is ever wasted. Even monsters remember who was kind to them.”
— Devoted Sub
“Where there is no imagination, there is only horror.”
— Devoted Sub, after Arthur Conan Doyle
“What is claimed is loved. What is loved is kept. What is kept is bound. What is bound is never abandoned.”
— Devoted Sub
“Sleep tight. She’s already in your dreams.”
— Devoted Sub
The Ones Who Said It First
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
“If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
— Maya Angelou
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
— Albert Einstein
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
— Confucius
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
— Aesop
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle