It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.
Interpretation
This quote describes a personal revelation of identity and purpose.
In this quote, Laini Taylor expresses a transformative realization about one's true self and purpose. The metaphor of a tower versus a lighthouse illustrates the shift from feeling static and purposeless to recognizing one's essential role in guiding and illuminating others, akin to how a lighthouse helps sailors find their way. This awakening signifies not only self-discovery but also a newfound brightness and potential that can inspire others.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire individuals to find their true purpose.
It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.
Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.
God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.
What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
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