Rachel

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“The story must strike a nerve—in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading—that is a good life.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process