Kindle Notes & Highlights
We’re a set of small black shiny beads who string around together, finding beauty the rest of the world has overlooked.”
“The cognoscenti are ‘the ones who know.’”
“Everything is better with the right soundtrack.”
Hearing that music had been like seeing a color she never had seen before, or finding a new room in the house where she had lived for years.
“The one by René Char? ‘A new mystery sings in your bones. Develop your legitimate strangeness.’”
I need this quote on the wall above my writing space.
“But this is what makes being a parent hard: trying to decide when to step in and protect you and when to step back and let you protect yourself. Because growing up includes realizing that some people are stupid and cruel and you have to figure out how to deal with them. Figuring that out makes you a stronger person.
I think great art is like a miracle. It shows us things we wouldn’t have imagined ourselves. It makes us see the world differently. It makes things we thought were impossible, possible.
Love the truth in this.
