Daniel

“Most people have no idea how much of themselves they store off-site. Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you—finish you—as much as you create you. When you’re gone, the ones you’ve left behind get to keep the same part of you they always had.” She”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“You can only put your conscious attention on one thing at a time. If that’s all that has your attention, you’re in flow.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2