"You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image ..." — Angela Carter

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.