Abbi Borkowski

“As Albert Einstein said, ‘The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”
― Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life

“Something happens to a novel as it ages, but what? It doesn’t ripen or deepen in the manner of cheese and wine, and it doesn’t fall apart, at least not figuratively. Fiction has no half-life. We age alongside the novels we’ve read, and only one of us is actively deteriorating. Which is to say that a novel is perishable only by virtue of being stored in such a leaky cask: our heads.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“When you find yourself in that place where someone else’s truth makes you fearful of trusting your own, remember this: Only you got yourself here, and it is safe to trust that you can take yourself the rest of the way.”
― Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

“The common thread among them: They have discovered that in this world, there is no real doing without first being.”
― Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose