Lindsay Jeffries

“Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch