"my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying."

-- Dorothy Allison

#Book Quotes #Survival Quotes #Dying Quotes

“On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.”
“I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.”
“Being blind, I rely on software that talks to me.”
“I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.”
“The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.”
“I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.”

Source : Claire Keegan (2010). “Foster”, p.11, Faber & Faber
“Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.”
“Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.”

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