Haley F

“I didn’t sleep at all that night. Soon after leaving the station, the lights were out. It was just an old passenger train from Dixie to the Midwest, with no amenities of any kind. No lights, no reading, nothing to do but make friends with the sounds of the night train. The wheels on the track made endless patterns, and I was caught up in it almost at once. Years later, studying with Alla Rakha, Ravi Shankar’s great tabla player and music partner, I practiced the endless cycles of 2s and 3s that form the heart of the Indian tal system. From this I learned the tools by which apparent chaos could be heard as an unending array of shifting beats and patterns. But on this memorable night, I was innocent of all that.”
― Philip Glass, Words Without Music: A Memoir

“But the more I focused on my interests, the more it brought out things I liked about myself”
― Raina Telgemeier, Smile

“I guess change is pretty scary. Even if it's the good kind.”
― Alyson Gerber, Braced

“Weird...something happens when you smile at people. They smile back”
― Raina Telgemeier, Smile