Carly Horobin

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting,”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Forbes had fully invested herself in her sentences. She had made them her own, agreed to live or die by them, taken total responsibility for them. How had she done this? I didn’t know. But I do now: she’d revised them.”
― George Saunders, The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The world, I started to see, was a different world, depending on what you said about it, and how you said it. By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions.”
― George Saunders, The Brain-Dead Megaphone