“She felt herself suspended inside a storm cloud, the electric charges crackling dangerously around her and her only retreat a fatal fall.”
― The Girl in His Shadow
― The Girl in His Shadow
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.”
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