“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently.”
― Not in the Flesh
― Not in the Flesh
“failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Everyone on Earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
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