Mandy

“It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.”
― Tenessee Williams

“How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?”
― Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness

“And whoever thinks these are worthy, breathy words I am writing down is kind. Writing is neither vibrant life nor docile artifact but a text that would put all its money on the hope of suggestion. Come with me into the field of sunflowers is a better line than anything you will find here, and the sunflowers themselves far more wonderful than any words about them.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Blue