"Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time."

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Ally Carter

“I Can't Conceive of Thinking that I'm Too Old to Do What I Love”
“This is not a problem. I'm making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then I'm going to shoot. One good result and I'm coming back. This is a distraction, it's the calm before the storm.”
“The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.”
“Email is a mind-killer. Like, I really think getting a smartphone is the worst move I ever did in being a musician because while we've just been talking my phone's vibrated like 15 times and I only get push notifications for like two apps, so either like a bunch of houses are going up for sale right now or someone's like, "Why aren't you emailing me back?" It's just hard to stay in the moment. I can understand why people go to retreats to write and stuff like that but I don't have the time.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.”
“He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.”
“Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics
“I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.”

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