Quote of the day…
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer”. – Barbara Kingsolver
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer”. – Barbara Kingsolver
“I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the… Continue reading Quote of the day…
“The mind is like an object that picks up dust. The object doesn’t know, any more than the mind does, why what clings to it clings”. – If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
“You will be dealing with life problems and life solutions, not life problems turned into food problems and phoney food solutions”. – On Eating, Susie Orbach
“Being brave isn’t the same as being okay.” – Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams
“My psyche and thin little body had taken too many beatings. But I am strong and robust mentally- if only I had the physical strength to match”. – Traces, Professor Patricia Wiltshire
“Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important; whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair”. – The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
“An eating disorder wants you silent, ashamed, isolated. It will tell you anything to keep you all to itself. It’s probably telling you right now that you shouldn’t say its name, that it’s your friend. But your body is more than a thing to be looked at, it works with you, not against you. You… Continue reading Quote of the day…
“The intensity of childhod reading, the instant and complete absorption in a book – a good book, a bad book, in any kind of book – is something I would give much to recapture.” – Bookworm, Lucy Mangan
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.” – The Secret History, Donna Tartt