100 days of solitude
Daphne Kapsali
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Depression isn’t cool, and happy isn’t shallow, and nothing worth having is hard. Nothing comes easy except the things that belong to you. An easy life is what you have when you’re living the way you’re supposed to, whichever way that might be. When you stop overcoming and just glide.”
“Dancing on the street's not crazy. What's crazy is trying to capture freedom with rules, and how we make our lives so small that there's no room for dancing.”
“It’s a disconcerting thing, to be surprised by yourself. To allow yourself to be surprised. To step outside the margins of your story, the story you’ve been telling yourself so far, and go further. To actually get to know yourself outside the story, and be surprised. A”
“I think all of our disappointments come from expectations, the context that we build around everything we do, blocking our view.”
“I struggle with compliments: I don’t know how to handle them, and my first instinct is to reject the nice thing that’s been said about me, to prove that it somehow isn’t so.”
“And my story, it seems, is woven with strands of poetry and legend and myth, encyclopaedic citations and other people’s imaginations, all coming together to shape the meaning of my days. Everything is connected. It”
“writing is a very lonely occupation. You have no colleagues, but your office space is shared with countless horrible little demons of self-doubt, and insecurity, despondency and hopelessness. And they’re not very supportive at all. It’s hard enough pouring your soul into something that may just come to absolutely nothing, without feeling that no one gives a shit, one way or the other. You need accountability, and sometimes all it takes is someone to show an interest, ask a question or two, acknowledge this scary, crazy thing you’re doing. And it keeps the demons quiet for a little while.”
“sometimes we need a little crazy to take us where we want to be.”
“it’s not hits that I’m after, but readers.”
“because its those little things that make our lives distinguishable from all the other lives, and our stories worth telling.”
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Book Keywords:
self-worth, compliments
