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“I know that memories alter the more you revisit them, and I want mine to re main pristine. I want to hold that memory still, as if it were stuck in a snow globe, protected and unchanged even as the world swirls around it.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

“People smile at kids when they make mistakes and as they figure out their way in the world but forget that even as adults, there's still no road map and everyone's bumbling along as best they can. Maybe if grown-ups could see the kids they once were -- the kids who were still inside -- then everyone would be a little better for it.”
― Evelyn Skye, The Incredible Kindness of Paper

“Dreams are elusive, and always pulling at you. They seem always to be right around the corner. But you never really know what you're chasing, until you catch it. If it turns out to be real magic, the chase will have been worth it.”
― Bob Weis, Dream Chasing: My Four Decades of Success and Failure with Walt Disney Imagineering

“Loneliness has a sad reputation. But all it is is a small circle you are standing in. This might be a sad experience, if it is not where you want to be standing. But being lonely often has the magic of clear truth -- a reminder that the circle is always present, in your mind, and that you alone can invite others to join you, the way you alone can decide what book to read, what sentences to hold close or to skip entirely.”
― Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?