“Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.”
― The Home and the World
― The Home and the World
“Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you. No matter how famous or powerful they became, my husbands would always long to be cherished. They would always yearn to feel worthy. If a person could make them feel that way, they’d bind themselves to him—or her—forever.”
― The Palace of Illusions
― The Palace of Illusions
“Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it’s all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.”
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“Life can only be understood backward; the trouble is, it has to be lived forward.”
― In the Light of What We Know
― In the Light of What We Know
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