“You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.”
― The Bad Beginning
― The Bad Beginning
“The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.”
― The Bad Beginning
― The Bad Beginning
“And you will be quite on your own when you do all this. There is no academy where you can learn to be yourself; there is no line manager slowly urging you toward the correct answer. You are midwife to yourself, and will give birth to yourself, over and over, in dark rooms, alone.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it’s always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on earth—every day I have ever had—was secretly sunny, after all.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
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