Amy Neftzger

“Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.”

“It takes darkness inside of a person to see it in others.”

“Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.”

“The problem with Fate is that no matter how many times you call out to her, she has her own timing that’s irrelevant to whatever anyone else happens to be doing”

“The things that truly define me can’t be lost.”

“That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.”

“Memories are not always the best measure of things.”

“Words often outlive the people who create them.”

“There are no miracles on Mondays.”

“Things spoken in love always become reality.”

“I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.”

“All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.”

“When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.”

“It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.”

“Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.”

“Scars can mark you for greatness.”

“I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.”

“Opinions are a useless currency”

“Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.”

“Choices are powerful things. In fact, they’re more powerful than most things.”