Catherine

“The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

“... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“His voice, you might say, became the place where he lived, the way other people live in their furniture or gestures”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
― Epictetus