“Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.”
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“Well, you are dying—on purpose."
"And you're pregnant—by accident."
"A fine pair we make," she says.”
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"And you're pregnant—by accident."
"A fine pair we make," she says.”
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“That is excitement. We catch only glimpses, a burst of movement, a flap of wings, yet it is life itself beating at shadow's edge. It is the unfolding of potential; all of what we might experience and see and learn awaits us.”
― To The Bright Edge of the World
― To The Bright Edge of the World
“The rewards had to come from the joy of puzzling out the work itself, and from the private awareness I held that I had chosen a devotional path and I was being true to it.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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