The Arc Quotes

“She marveled at her own ability to achieve success, while simultaneously being certain that complete and utter failure was imminent. Her visible accomplishments meant a lot to others, but little to her. What she actually valued in herself was her ability to teeter on the knife edge between earned confidence and persistent anxiety, to maintain her equanimity amid success spikes and moments of devastating self-doubt. “Thank”
― Tory Henwood Hoen, The Arc

“She couldn’t shake what felt like a series of inborn contradictions: a mistrust of wealth but a craving for it; a love of autonomy but a longing for partnership; an impulse toward creative chaos but a need for security and structure; and a desire to both retain and relinquish control of her fate.”
― Tory Henwood Hoen, The Arc

“Despite feeling intense internal pressure to become more practical in order to survive, she could not fully tear herself away from the creative life. She felt caught between worlds and wholly unemployable.”
― Tory Henwood Hoen, The Arc

“She was one of those magicians who had managed to fully retain her own identity within a romantic relationship—”
― Tory Henwood Hoen, The Arc