#den

It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#writing #writing-process #change

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#become #change #growing-up #independent #into-the-wild

It is in our best interest to. . . embark on a revolutionary change that will lead us away from oil dependency rather than drag our feet and suffer the costs of becoming growingly dependent on a diminishing resource.' Truer words were never written. ↗

— Albert Marrin

#energy #oil #change

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves. ↗

— Myles Horton

#change #dependence #change

In spite of the three hours I spent combing over the details, I have, to this day, a very persistent certainty that hidden inside me is the revolting knowledge of days when I wasn't quite myself. I now suspect that my inexplicable bouts of exhaustion are due to the massive effort of keeping those days behind me. ↗

— Tony Burgess

#memory #change

Well, then he would be at war with the government, and death was an unfortunate side effect of any revolution. Change always had a price tag. But once he took over, the people would realize he was a better ruler than the disorganized, self-interested mob that called themselves Congress -- men who didn't know anything, being led by a president who knew even less. ↗

— C.J. Hill

#death #government #president #war #change

Mac folded his arms on the bar and looked at me intently and said, in a resonant baritone, "You've got to be very careful, Harry." I looked at him, shocked. He'd...used grammar. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#change

Why?" I demanded of her. "Why bring the child into this? Why not just come straight to me?" "Does it matter at this point?" I shrugged. "Not really. I'm curious." She stared at me for a moment and then she smiled. "You don't know." I eyed her warily. "Don't know what?" "Dear boy," she said. "This was never about you." I scowled. "I don't understand." "Obviously," Arianna said, and gave me a stunning smile. "Die confused. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#change

I took a big dose of Tylenol the original, since I didn't have my Tylenol 3 or its lesser-known, short-lived cousin, Tylenol Two: The Pain Strikes Back. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#change

So," he said. "Mab." I grunted vaguely in reply. "You hit that," Sanya said. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#change