"It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you."

-- Willa Cather

“Everything ultimately comes down to trust.”
“You mix two jiggers of Scotch to one jigger of Metrecal. So far I've lost five pounds and my driver's license.”
“A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.”
“The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.”
“You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.”
“There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.”
“I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.”
“After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.”

Source : Anna McPartlin (2008). “Pack Up the Moon”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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