Irene Park

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“But history is so often molded from tainted clay by those who remain.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“If I populate my life with people just like me, then my world is going to be mighty small, indeed—maybe one person deep in all directions. If there are no opposing views, no fresh vantage points, then there is no stretching beyond myself. No growth. No change.”
― Chip Gaines, Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff