Carol Whitfield

“I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dull as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.”
― Betty MacDonald, The Plague and I

“As Carl Jung said, “I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“I’ve come to the belief that we manufacture whatever immortal souls we have out of the bits of difference we make by living in this world.”
― Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees

“But I sacrificed my entire life; I sold it to the abyss. And the abyss gave me art.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!