Becka Mull

“By the time you turn thirty, your life is about escaping the person you've become in order to escape the person you've become in order to escape the person you started as.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

“She'd never trusted her own natural impulses and instincts Among her greatest fears was the possibility that she might never discover and develop her deepest talents and intuitions. Her special gifts. Her life would be wasted in pursuing the goals set for her by other people. Instead, she wanted to reclaim a power and authority - a primitive, irresistible force - that transcended gender roles. She dreamed of wielding a raw magic that predated civilization itself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Beautiful You

“It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up whatever you’re trying to say.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts