Lisa

“I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Addiction was the inverse of honest work. It was everything, right now. I drank away nervousness, and I drank away boredom, and I needed to build a new tolerance. Yes to discomfort, yes to frustration, yes to failure, because it meant I was getting stronger. I refused to be the person who only played games she could win.”
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

“These fundamental imbalances led them into concentric circles of ever decreasing size: a nautilus shell of their discontent.”
― John L. Parker Jr., Once a Runner

“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.”
― Alan Cohen