#100daysofbookquotes: Quote week: 14

092

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest. – Anaïs Nin

 093

“The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.” 

― Shannon L. Alder

 095

“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them 

behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”

—Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead

 095

“Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.” 

― Charles Bukowski

 096

“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

Scout” 

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

 097

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” 

― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak”

098

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” 

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft