Here’s this week’s quote I love…
“People sometimes think I’m gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It’s funny. Audiences don’t think you’re a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you’re gay if you play a gay.”
-Perry King
Anyone have any thoughts on why this might be true?
Hope everyone is having a nice week!
Sloan
Here’s this week’s quote I love…
I’m getting closer to finishing my manuscript for Breathe. Today I finished another read through the final pages, making a few edits and tweaks hear and there, and I ended up in tears at the end. I love these guys, love their journey, love their relationship. I’m a sap. And a sucker for my own work. Not sure what that means, but I’m hoping it’s a good thing.
So for my quote today, I wanted to post a few of my favorites about forgiveness, a major theme in Breathe.
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
-Lewis B. Smedes
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
-Paul Boese
Some things are more difficult to forgive than others, but sometimes we hold on to the smallest of slights and that does us more harm than we know. One thing I’ve learned through the process of writing this book is that I hope I can learn to forgive more easily.
Have a great day!
Sloan
Here’s this week’s quote I love…
After a short break I’m back to editing my next book Breathe, and so I thought I’d use a quote today that says something to me about the story, the characters, and their relationship.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same.– Flavia Weedn
This isn’t an exact fit, but it does capture a lot of what the story means to me.
Hope you all meet someone today who will leave a footprint on your heart.
Sloan Parker
Here’s this week’s quote I love…
Sometimes when I’m writing I listen to music. Occasionally a song will remind me of a character I’m writing about. Then whenever I hear that song, I’m right back into the story, into the character’s head. I find myself listening to it over and over.
I’ve found several songs that really hit home when it came to my book More.
“Numb” by Linkin Park fits Luke in so many ways. Since More is releasing next week, I thought it was the perfect time to post some of the song’s lyrics for my quote of the week. There’s also a video below if you want to listen.
“I’m tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless
Lost under the surface
I don’t know what you’re expecting of me
Put under the pressure
Of walking in your shoes…
Every step that I take is another mistake to you…
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like youCan’t you see that you’re smothering me
Holding too tightly
Afraid to lose control
‘Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you-Numb by Linkin Park
Hope you have a great day! Cheers,
Sloan Parker
Here’s this week’s quote I love…
“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing. It’s ok though, because I’ve got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation…so when I meet someone who’s an 8-color type…I’m like, hey girl, magenta! and she’s like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I’m like, no – I want magenta!”
– John Mayer (singer)
We should all have more colors in our lives.
Sloan Parker