Harry

“Stop searching yourself trying to understand why someone else treated you the way they did. The answer is not inside you; it's inside them, out of reach.”
― Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

“I don’t deserve joy!'
'No one does. It’s a gift from God.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

“Now those moments seem proof that self-love is an instinct, as animal as any other function of the self. The ferocity of my affection could not be erased, only suppressed under total vigilance. My self-hatred was not self-generated. It was an expression of the environment outside of my body, which, it eventually turned out, I could change.”
― Melissa Febos, Girlhood

“If you’re not careful, you can revise the life right out of a piece of writing. If you’re not careful, you can scrub all the weirdness and wildness right out of it. As counterintuitive as it sounds, you can polish it dull.”
― Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change