Rachael Brearton

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“I was an astronaut who was going to fly so high, so far beyond the moon, so far beyond the whole wide world. But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“If only something would happen. Something being the revelation that transfigures existence; works a miraculous presto-chango upon the mundane mortal world - turning the toads and cockroaches back into handsome princes, the Clark Kents into Superman - that calls unexpectedly up on the phone and says: "your name has just been picked from a hat, like a rabbit, and we're giving you a million dollars", - or that announces in a sudden telegram: "Congratulations! Lady Rockerfeller has just died and left you several estates and an enchanted sources of continual private income". But instead, day after day, there are hardboiled eggs instead of frogs legs for breakfast, and doubts and worries buzz and sting like the evils in Pandora's box.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath