My life resembles a kintsugi bowl, built from the shards of a once perfectly fine existence, only the lacquer holding the pieces together is not powdered with gold dust, but with tears and resilience and courage.
“The most valuable lesson I’ve learned as a journalist is that everybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you.”
― You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
― You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
― The Chaos of Stars
― The Chaos of Stars
“The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.”
― Wallflower at the Orgy
― Wallflower at the Orgy
“If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. ”
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“My life resembles a kintsugi bowl, built from the shards of a once perfectly fine existence, only the lacquer holding the pieces together is not powdered with gold dust, but with tears and resilience and courage.”
― If I Go Missing
― If I Go Missing
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