Sandy McCloud

“Impossible just takes a little longer.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“In Beauvoir’s experience Darwin was way wrong. The fittest didn’t survive. They were killed by the idiocy of their neighbors, who continued to bumble along oblivious.”
― Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling

“But he didn’t pick up his rebab, although I waited for the music; I needed it like water. My mind was so full of cracks.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet