I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
Kalau ini membantu, setelah beberapa lama, ketika kebencian itu tidak lagi kurasa perlu, ketika yang tersisa hanya perasaan bersalah, yang tertinggal dalam diriku adalah perasaan betapa besarnya kesalahanku kepadamu, betapa aku merindukanmu. Dan aku harus melihatmu dari kejauhan, menyaksikanmu mencapai mimpi, menjalani kehidupan yang tampak sempurna.
So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.
My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.
Konser bukan berarti berdiri menjadi target di depan ribuan orang asing. Konser berarti menyatu. Harmoni.
Aku tidak tahu apakah setelah meninggal kau akan mengingat hal-hal yang terjadi padamu ketika masih hidup. Rasanya sangat logis jika kau tidak mengingatnya. Bahwa meninggal akan terasa seperti sebelum kau dilahirkan, yang artinya ketidakberadaan.