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“Janet encouraged me to let in the problems of the world enough not to paralyze me but to galvanize me to do more. As I made my way through the ensuing years, I would think about these two words so often--paralyze and galvanize--their strong and opposing forces, and the space between them.”
― Tallu Schuyler Quinn, What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death

“there were the things she wished were true, and there was what was actually true.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, The Things We Wish Were True

“There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true. Sighing,”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Janet encouraged me to let in the problems of the world enough not to paralyze me but to galvanize me to do more. As I made my way through the ensuing years, I would think about these two words so often--paralyze and galvanize--their strong and opposing forces, and the space between them.”
― Tallu Schuyler Quinn, What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death