Earlina

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness

“You and I cannot afford to wait on the validation of others to get moving.”
― Earlina Green

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”
― Archibald MacLeish