"In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not."

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Source : Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.140, Penguin

Jandy Nelson

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“Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.”
“War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.”
“I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”

Source : Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam
“Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.”
“If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.”
“I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.”

Source : Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns
“To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.”
“You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.”

Source : Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.98, Macmillan

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