Laura’s Profile

“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!”
― Ralph Ellison

“Surprise is where creativity comes in.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchet, State of Wonder

“Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.”
― Ann Packer, Swim Back to Me