Emily

“It's such a beautiful night. I think I'll catch up on reading your diaries. I'll use Track Changes so you can see where you went wrong.”
― Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

“I am trying to place myself in history. I have been looking all my life for history and have yet to find it.”
― Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

“Lord, travel is a curse. So are friends, and love, and mornings.”
― Melinda Taub, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

“Whether you freeze and become paralyzed; you become combative; [you] start kissing ass and trying to prove your way out -- it's all a response to our discomfort. They're all just different strategies to the same thing: I don't have a way to handle discomfort that keeps me in my integrity.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice