Quotes from book

Diary

“According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.”

“You'll need to suffer to make any real art.”

“Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.”

“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”

“There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.”

“Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.”

“Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”

“Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.”

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”

“And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.”

“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.”

“Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.”