Rebel

“I can confidently say that stories of pain and courage almost always include two things: praying and cussing. Sometimes at the exact same time.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.”
― John Connolly, The Infernals

“Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the temporal fixtures of the mind awake. I stretched luxuriously—a good and tingling sensation. It's as though the skin has shrunk in the night and one must push it out to daytime size by bulging the muscles, and there's an a itching pleasure in it.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“when we are in pain and fear, anger and hate are our go-to emotions.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone