"There are no happy endings, because there are no endings."
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Carl W. Buechner
"Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake." ~ E.L. Doctorow
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."~ Ray Bradbury
"I do not like to write - I like to have written." ~ Gloria Steinem
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." ~ W.C. Fields
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” ~ Neil Gaiman

The movement wherein members of a marching band raise their instruments from a carrying position to a playing position is called a flash. Marching bands flash people all the time