The Blizzard doesn't last forever...it just seems so.

"[S]tarting when I was fifteen I began to send short stories to magazines like Esquire, and they, very promptly, sent them back two days before they got them! I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn’t realize what a strong person I was; I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn. Then, during the late forties, I actually began to sell short stories and accomplished some sort of deliverance from snowstorms in my fourth decade. But even today, my latest books of short stories contain at least seven stories that were rejected by every magazine in the United States and also in Sweden! So … take heart from this. The blizzard doesn’t last forever; it just seems so."

-Ray Bradbury

This quote speaks to me like a microphone in the ear. Feelings have recently come towards me days before I had started reading Fahrenheit 451. They were questions almost exactly like the ones Clarrisse asks Guy Montag. As I began reading and noticing how much of a coincidence it was I just laughed. I laughed and laughed and laughed until I didn't know what to do with myself anymore. These feelings that flooded me before had brought me down and pulled me back out.

This quotes sums up everything I need to take to heart right now, I may have been in the dark with not one hand reaching out towards me, but I'm not the only one in there. Sooner or later I realized others in the same position had found me and I, them. This quote just gave me so much inspiration for the exact spot I am climbing out of. I thank you Mr. Bradbury.



-Uyen