Meg Wallace

“The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.”
― Alan Alda, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
― Carson McCullers, The Square Root of Wonderful

“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings