Emily

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process

“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“We didn't know what would happen next: that was our great gift. The gift of youth. The thing we miss, it seems to me, no matter what we've made of our lives, as we get older. When we do know what will happen next. And next and next, and then last.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”
― Anne Lamott