Cal Katherine Beard

“But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“Man’s growth is held back by his surrender to other people’s expectation that he remain the person he was when they met him.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Of course I was afraid. But I had learned to fear other things more: being despised, whittled down one small piece of myself at a time, smirked at and taken advantage of. I put my chin up and said, as cold as I could be in answer, “And what will you give me in return?”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“Now I become myself.

Now I become myself. It's taken
Time, many years and places;
I have been dissolved and shaken,
Worn other people's faces,”
― May Sarton