1.
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.
Jeph Jacques
A healthy relationship is like a firecracker: vigorous, energetic, and prone to burn if you cling too tightly.
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You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
Jeph Jacques
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That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.
Jeph Jacques
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There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.
Jeph Jacques
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If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
Jeph Jacques
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Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
Jeph Jacques
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The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
Jeph Jacques
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The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.
Jeph Jacques
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The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.
Jeph Jacques
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Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.
Jeph Jacques
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Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
Jeph Jacques
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You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.
Jeph Jacques
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What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people.
Jeph Jacques
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'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
Jeph Jacques