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The leaves turn color, the grasses wither; the beasts sense the advance of a long, hungry season. And bowing to their vision, I too know a sadness.
“Rage. It’s like there’s a pilot light always burning in my center. It takes almost nothing for the flames to shoot up.”
― The Doll's House
― The Doll's House
“Predators and abusers, my shrink has said, can sense your pain and weakness. It’s their gift.”
― The Doll's House
― The Doll's House
“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“The context for hope is radical uncertainty’, writes McKinnon; ‘anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it’, Rebecca Solnit. ‘Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door somewhere.”
― How to Blow Up a Pipeline
― How to Blow Up a Pipeline
“But even as I fought to make myself smaller, my self would fight back. The diets would not stick, the laughter would not quiet, the opinions would not hide, the anger would not die. Every attempt I made to be less of myself would fail, and I would come back bigger than ever—in every way.”
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
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