Selkie Woman Quotes & Sayings

Say: If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders. — Laura Miller

Hellbenders. I collected with exuberance and totality, bringing home almost everything I could get my hands on, and releasing them into the assorted outdoor terrariums or aquariums in my back yard (the turtles I let run wild in the yard, like dogs or cats). — Rick Bass

Don't let psychological warfare from an advertisement campaign blind you from the truth of your beauty, possibility, worthiness, and purpose. — Steve Maraboli

And I was looking for escape routes all the time. Ways to not fully be there, to be distracted by other lives, the lives of people I knew from high school and college that were happening in different states and cities. I would waste hours comparing my life to theirs, sitting the two of them side by side and circling the things that seemed out of place in my own life, like the "What's Wrong?" pictures in the back of the Highlights magazines. I don't exactly know what happened that night after — Hannah Brencher

You can never lead unless you follow. — Giancarlo Esposito

It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women. — Theodora Goss

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness. — Frederick Lenz

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was. — Darrell Hammond

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped. — Virginia Woolf

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product. — Jared Diamond

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. — Flannery O'Connor