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It Was Always In You

“Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you.” Wow. (Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westovers; hand lettering by Emily PG Erickson)

What have you been surprised to discover was in you all along?⁣

Because They Could

“One of them says, ‘Why did they do it?’⁣ And the other says, ‘Because they could.’⁣ That is the only answer there ever is.” (The Power, Naomi Alderman; hand lettered by Emily PG Erickson)

Even more wisdom from Naomi Alderman’s The Power.

The Trouble With History

“This is the trouble with history. You can’t see what’s not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something is missing, but there’s no way to know what it was.” (The Power by Naomi Alderman; hand lettered by Emily PG Erickson)

Wisdom from Naomi Alderman’s book The Power.

A Crucial Skill

The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand (Tara Westover; Hand lettered by Emily PG Erickson)

The pain and possibility of learning something new.

It’s What I’m Going To Do

It's not what I've done, Allie thinks to herself, it's what I'm going to do (Hand lettered by Emily PG Erickson))

Balancing the past and future.

Alone Time

Alone time (Handlettering by Emily PG Erickson)

How do you recharge?

Impossible Becomes Possible

Everyday day one grows a little every day something is different so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible becomes possible (handlettered by Emily PG Erickson)

Inspirational quote from Naomi Alderman on hope, growth, and possibility.