Quotes of Note

It seemed a particularly melancholy notion to me that life would go on in Australia and I would hear almost nothing of it.

Every tale that lasts is real, even if it’s not true.

Self-compassion helps us focus on why we’re trying to achieve something.

We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.

what’s more important than the intensity of the challenge you face in life is how you relate to yourself in the midst of it.

“What’s a hare-loom tomato?” BJ peered over his shoulder. “It’s when rich people think fucked-up-looking things are more special than normal stuff.”

Passing is an art form, darling. It’s a craft. And just like any craft, the artistic ideal is always impossible to achieve.

Words are the memory twitching after the reality of the dance …

We are so anxious to classify and categorize, both nature and human nature. It is a beautiful impulse—to contain the infinite in the finite, to wrest order from the chaos, to construct a foothold so we may climb toward higher truth. It is also a limiting one, for in naming things we often come to mistake the names for the things themselves.