Experience
1922
It's Meg's seventeenth birthday in the charming villages of Devonshire, and she has an announcement: she intends to write a novel. Her father, brother, and uncle receive this ambition with a mixture of encouragement and wry, affectionate skepticism that feels timeless. What unfolds is a light-hearted, sharply observed portrait of a young woman navigating the small dramas of family life, first love, and the terror of facing a blank page. The prose fizzes with wit and warmth, capturing the particular ache of wanting something beyond the boundaries of village life while realizing those boundaries might be where you most belong. Meg is naïve but not foolish, ambitious but not ruthless, a heroine whose greatest adventure might be discovering who she actually is, rather than who she imagined herself to be. The novel glitters with the humor and heart of early 20th-century domestic fiction, reminding us that the most revolutionary thing a young woman can do is simply ask: what do I want?
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“Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn’t lie to you. It learned more.””
— Unknown
“Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.””
— Unknown
“The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person (because I need something from them).” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t the fullness of love. Instead there is attachment”
— Unknown
“Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surender to uncertainty. We have to ask questions, admit to not knowing, risk being told that we shouldn't be asking, and, sometimes, make discoveries that lead to discomfort.””
— Unknown
“good friends aren’t afraid of your light. They never blow out your flame and you don’t blow out theirs”
— Unknown
“People will do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power;””
— Unknown
“I am responsible for holding you accountable in a respectful and productive way. I’m not responsible for your emotional reaction to that accountability””
— Unknown
“Comparison is the crush of conformity from one side and competition from the other”
— Unknown
“The idea that regret is a fair but tough teacher can really piss people off. “No regrets” has become synonymous with daring and adventure, but I disagree. The idea of “no regrets” doesn’t mean living with courage, it means living without reflection. To live without regret is to believe we have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with our lives.””
— Unknown
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