Sal

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“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling

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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom

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“One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man, and the British Empire a different institution.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust

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“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley