Alex

“Love is a constant negotiation, a constant conversation; to love someone is to lay yourself open to rejection and abandonment; love is something you can earn but not extort. It is an arena in which you are not in control, because someone else also has rights and decisions; it is a collaborative process; making love is at its best a process in which those negotiations become joy and play.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.”
― Martin Cruz Smith

“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
― Ossie Davis

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary woman, but she is brave five minutes longer. (That's me piggybacking on Emerson.)”
― Camille Perri, The Assistants