The Best of Friends

by Sarah M. Eden

“Not knowing something you’ve not yet had the chance to learn is not a poor reflection on you,”

“Self-preservation hardly counts as intelligence.” “Only according to those who never had to save themselves. You needn’t be a mathematician or orator or academic in order to be intelligent, Daria.

“Art resides in the soul. When we create art, it arises from so deep a place within us that it is, in many ways, part of us. To have your music torn away would not merely feel like losing a part of yourself; it would literally be a loss of self.”

“Hope is sometimes a fragile thing,” she said. “But it is also resilient. Clinging to it isn’t always logical, but it is very often right.”