Tonyne

“Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience . . . there's all that fallow land, and here beside me is all that fallow man. It seems a waste. And I have a bad feeling about waste because I could never afford it. Is it a good feeling to let your life lie fallow?”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

“they thought I had guts
they were wrong
I was only frightened of
more important things”
― Charles Bukowski

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham