You should like a drawing, painting, pottery or a poem that you made. No matter what anyone else may think about it. If it’s an expression of yourself it’s from your heart and you should like it. We shouldn’t only like ourselves if others do, we should first like ourselves and then chances are that …

She wants, in a way, to be treated like a child: never disappointed, always cared for, always protected from the cruelties and realities of ordinary life. And such a person demands that kind of treatment from other adults. But, although some people are able to offer that kind of support to an actual child, few …

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone (via booksqouted)