“Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. Which is to say, don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”
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“I don't understand people who say they need more "Me Time." What other time is there? Do these people spend part of their day in someone else's body?”
― This Book is Not for Sale
― This Book is Not for Sale
“There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.”
― A Time for Everything
― A Time for Everything
“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Young Writers
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(Formerly known as Writers Who Are Children.) This is a group for young people who write things. Have a good time!
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CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: Motherless Child by Elizabeth Strout https://www.wnyc.org/story/elizabeth-strout-reads-motherless-child/ Free audio short ...more
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