"It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was."

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Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.173, Penguin

Jandy Nelson

#Effort Quotes #Enchanted Quotes #Lost Quotes

“When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.”
“I don't have a lot of time for managing [my businesses], so I put a lot of trust in people I hire to manage my businesses. I can't necessarily attend to [the businesses] while I'm in season. We swap ideas on how we can improve and deliver a better product.”
“It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.”
“Which weakness shall I tell her? â€œI walk funny,â€ I say, and sheâ€™s satisfied with that. (inside joke)”
“A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.”
“Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?”
“Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.”
“To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.”

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