Joanne Graham

“The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Don’t let your principles sit idle on a plaque. Bring them to life.”
― Cheryl A. Bachelder, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others

“and honesty is the hardest part
yeah honesty is the highest art
and honestly i myself just started
and eureka i’m less broken-hearted”
― Ani DiFranco

“‎"she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski