“Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.”
― The Grownup
― The Grownup
“After I was caught returning at dawn from one such late-night escapade, my worried mother thoroughly interrogated me regarding every drug teenagers take, never suspecting that the most intoxicating thing I’d experienced, by far, was the volume of romantic poetry she’d handed me the previous week.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“She connects me to my deepest truth and says things I don’t always feel the courage to say in my own life.”
― Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song
― Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song
“Deep empathy for people makes our observations powerful sources of inspiration.”
― Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
― Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
“He had reached some compromise in his mind that fatherhood could be distilled; short, concentrated (but sincere) bursts of high intensity could equal…whatever it was that other fathers did. All I knew was, if that was the price of medicine, it was simply too high.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
Beach Gals Book Club
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This is a place for the Beach Gals Book Club to get together and share our reading lists! We are located in San Diego. Feel free to join us!
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