Quotes

“Approach people with a sense of genuine friendliness, and not a defensive crouch,” he says. “They’re not out to get you just because they don’t get you. Then you won’t go around with this armor and this shield and this darkness.” — Stephan Jenkins

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget loves and betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. Keeping a notebook keeps alive some illusion of who we used to be, allowing us to maintain continuity with a self we’ve already outgrown.”

-Joan Didion (from “On Keeping a Notebo