Amanda

“The more you ritualize the beginning of a process, the more likely it becomes that you can slip into the state of deep focus that is required to do great things.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“But after she had listened to the tale of my dream--one in which I lived alone, performed a boring job, and led a desolate life--she said, "Your dreams are not interesting. In other circumstances, they might be, but here we deal every day with matters of life and death." I knew she was right. I let her go to bed. I sat in the living room by myself.”
― Rebecca Curtis, Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money

“The writer had kept it up with monotonous and painful regularity.”
― James Siegel, Derailed

“Maybe people get used to the people they belittle, and who knows if they'll ever find anyone as good again?”
― James Siegel, Derailed