“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Bold action and bold manner are not the same.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Circe, he says, it will be all right.
It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what is means to be alive.”
― Circe
It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what is means to be alive.”
― Circe
“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. ”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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