Jim Cooke

“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. -Nido Qubein”
― Taite Adams, Restart Your Recovery - 12 Things You Can Do To Get Back on the Beam: Recapturing Emotional Sobriety and Avoiding Relapse

“He was seeking a lost innocence and settings made for enjoyment and ease, but where one could never be happy again.”
― Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity