Sarah J. Maas Quotes

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

I think people tend to cling to music when times are hard.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

We all have movies for times in our lives when we really need something.

I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.

He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans.

Music has the ability to comfort people.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it.

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

Music is like my security blanket.

I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.