Rachel

“the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Matthew Quick, Love May Fail

“Like war refugees, prisoners have lost everything: home, possessions, friends, and often family. For a prisoner, education has a special value as the one thing that no one can take from him.”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

“The dangerous ghetto environment I grew up in did not scare me, but bridges, elevators, even cars did. A thunderstorm would have me running into the basement, and any insect would have me running out of the house. I walked the dark streets alone at night but could not sleep without the reassuring sound of a little black-and-white TV—to the chagrin of my sister, with whom I shared a bedroom.”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

“Instead of always worrying about being efficient, I wanted to spend time on exploration, experimentation, digression, and failed attempts that didn’t always look productive.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project