It Is In Things. Quotes
We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.
Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone.
Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task.
The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.
At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.
A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen
Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.
Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively.
It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company
That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.
Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.
If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.
I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness.
It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.
Life is a lonely business
Life is a lonely bussiness
Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.
You don't create or write to be successful
Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.
I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.
... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.
... a man always revealed his own inner story in his actions and expressions. A man's past deeds foretold his future and allowed anyone with half a brain to divine the path he would take.
If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.
The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.
Every believer is also a nonbeliever because he does not believe in the things nonbelievers believe in
When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.
In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.
Sometimes I just wonder.Do we believe that God revolves around us?Or, do we believe that we revolve around God?These are staggering questions.
Often someone else's words can provoke us to memories both painful and sweet, and remind us of things we should have learned, but sometimes forget.
I'm sorry to say it, but it was hard on me to see life continue all around.
Live with grace and dignity. It's a middle finger to the darkness
There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise.
And that's the most frustrating thing about depression. It isn't always something you can fight back against with hope. It isn't even something-it's nothing. And you can't combat nothing.
I couldn't even muster the enthusiasm to hate myself anymore.
And finally - FINALLY - after a lifetime of feelings and anxiety and more feelings, I didn't have any feelings left. I had spent my last feeling being disappointed that I couldn't rent Jumanji.
Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.
Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants
Simplicity allows a measure of freedom which the complexities of modern life greedily consume – freedom to think, to reflect, to create, to serve and be sincerely generous with our time and presence.
Be fearless enough to let love transform you.