“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”
“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
“For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.”
“The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.”
“It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.”
“It had been so beautiful. Life had been so simple and so terribly beautiful.”