Madeline

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind…

If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say ‘But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.

Am well. Thinking of you always. Love.

We are the sum of all people we have ever met, you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

Before it was over I wanted to send you a postcard that said: Don’t try and kill something that’s too big to bury.

I feel very small and freakishly large at once. Critical and insignificant. At the very center of things and at the farthest edge.