Meg

“Your imagination is free to race a hundred works ahead, conceiving pieces you could and perhaps should and maybe one day will execute - but not today, not in the piece at hand. All you can work on today is directly in front of you. Your job is to develop an imagination of the possible.”
― David Bayles, Art and Fear

“You find someone who makes you better (which is no small feat, to be sure)--because you are inspired by his generosity, because he is somehow both fierce and gentle and this shows you a new way to be brave--and then you just choose him. But maybe you don't choose him once, maybe you have to choose him over and over again.”
― Mandy Len Catron, How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays

“When I had
no friends
I reached inside
my beloved
books
& sculpted some
out of
12 pt
Times new roman.

-- & it was almost good enough.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“I feel bad about my struggle, because it is nothing compared to other people’s struggles and yet it still hurts.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays