“Hope is nothing else but an inconstant pleasure, arising from the image of something future or past, whereof we do not yet know the issue. Fear, on the other hand, is an inconstant pain also arising from the image of something concerning which we are in doubt. If the element of doubt be removed from these emotions, hope becomes confidence and fear becomes despair.”

“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

the woman you’re becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things.

“Suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?”

““It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can’t see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. - She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead””

““I want you to stop telling me you love me when your words are smothered with gin and juice,” she watched as he took another sip of his drink. “When I’m sober I don’t love anything,” he looked at her with winter in his eyes, and she just wanted to defrost him, but she couldn’t figure out how.”