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“You haven’t seen the best of me yet.” I could feel it—some spark still deep in me and dying to burn. That little bit of me that I’d always been holding in reserve, for a time like now, perhaps. I still needed to prove—to myself and to the ...more
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“Ice vs. fire; free choice vs. necessity; weight vs. lightness; emptiness vs. meaning...speaking of emptiness, there was a time today when my whole body felt completely devoid of life and utterly without meaning. A character in one of Edith Wharton's novels says that "the real loneliness comes from all these kind faces who only ask one to pretend..." That is how I felt today, waiting anxiously for my afternoon pick-up, only to be let down, and later, facing the world (as if everything was okay inside). ”
Sarah Emily Miano, Encyclopaedia Of Snow

“Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate.”
Darin Strauss, Chang and Eng

Charlotte Brontë
“I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

George Eliot
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot

Josh Kilmer-Purcell
“...no matter how beneficial a disappearing act might be for me, I could never tear myself away from a show in progress. Even when the plot's tragic ending is apparent to the entire audience. Perhaps there's a deus ex machina that will lower from the ceiling and turn the whole debacle into a romantic comedy. never can tell. Paid the full ticket price, might as well stay.”
Josh Kilmer-Purcell, I Am Not Myself These Days

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