Dear Peach: big city ambition, rejection obsession, and escaping waifhood
What are you looking for? she had asked me. I think about it. A place for these dreams that I don’t know what to do with?
Michiko Aoyama • What You Are Looking For Is in the Library: A Novel
I understand what you’re afraid of. I understand what your parents fear. There are practical concerns. One needs money to live. And then there is a deep longing to feel legitimate in the world, to feel that others hold us in regard.
Cheryl Strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it. The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. I felt like a racehorse in a world without race-tracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a busines
... See moreSylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
We make so many of our decisions from the removed viewpoint of a “life well lived” — i.e. devoting ourselves to a career that will pay off at the point of retirement (what’s that?), or perhaps struggling through a damaged relationship because eventually it will work out — instead of making decisions that enable us to live well day-to-day.
(Annie Di
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