You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.
Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.
This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart.
I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.
There is no new wave, only the sea.
Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.
Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.