Cheryl

“fear can become the engine of our own transformation.”
― Annabel Abbs, Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women

“rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really. But on that boat she realised something. She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Failing is merely another step in a trajectory of becoming.”
― Annabel Abbs, Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women

“When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person. But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library