22 Quotes by Lynn Cullen

Fortunate is the person who can succeed in extracting honey from such a flower as this life, whose root and every petal is bitterness.

Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That’s right. No one. She has to get there herself.

If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each worldly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable even to its own self, yes. I do.

It is as if producing a creative work tears a piece from your soul. When it is ripped completely free of you, the wound must bleed for a while. How similar it is to letting go of a dream, your hope, or your heart’s desire. You must open up and let it drain.