Quotes from Austin Wright

She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?

You write because everything dies, to save what dies.

What she remembers now is not so much happiness as places where happiness occurred. Happiness was intangible, place made it visible.

To be heartbroken means to have a story

When you doubt your ability to make a difference just remember you are alive for a reason.

The house was an empty tank full of grief. Their empty ghosts floated everywhere they were not.

No problems are temporary until they are over. All problems are potentially permanent.

Her way with the chaos in her mind was to cultivate it through the articulations of others, by which she meant the reading of a lifetime with whose aid she created the interesting architecture and geography of herself.

like traveling without knowing what country you're going to

Money would compensate for lost dreams.