“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.”
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“My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“A fragment for my friend--
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Station Eleven
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Station Eleven
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