“What doesn’t kill me provides writing material.”— Wayne Gerard Trotman Related Quotes “The route to our highest hopes tends to run right through some dark, booby-trapped places. A girl needs a map and a light to steer her; she might need a flamethrower or a cannon as well. She might need a pirate lover.”— Sharon Pywell “Learn to trust yourself and you will create a meaningful life.”— Lynn A. Robinson “The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I’ll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth’s curvature allows. It’s a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move?”— Walter Kirn