As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.
High School Is Life’s Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)
Every time I get scared or feel like I'm not going to be good enough at something, I say that mantra to myself. "Pretend you're good at it. "
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.
One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from. . . me.
When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.
The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.
They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question.
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.