There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.
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Related I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fa... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack ... JOHN LYDON Cate had told me once, a long time ago, that the only way to survive your past was to find a way to ... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN But once, in his anger, Aidan had asked me whether I thought I had wasted my life, and I had told hi... JOHN BOYNE But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea ... DIANE MEIER My body had never felt so small or so fragile. In one sense, it was a moment of ecstasy and I was co... LEANNE WATERS I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was v... OZWALD BOATENG It was annoying. I was tired of it. I wanted to throw it off for good, but the coaches told me I had... 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JONATHAN RICHMAN I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I ha... ANGIE EVERHART I thought a lot about my attitude toward the world, toward fear and violence, and that I had somethi... ROBERT STONE For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my... JOHN GREEN In the jumbled, fragmented memories I carry from my childhood there are probably nearly as many drea... LISA TUTTLE --I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my han... DAVID JAMES DUNCAN She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN I think [the Yankees] wanted me back. It was a matter of me accepting the role they had for me. BERNIE WILLIAMS I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me ... MOBY I had an epiphany a few years ago when I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me t... MOBY When I finally begin to surface into the sterile hospital room in 13, I remember. I was under the in... SUZANNE COLLINS If I was smart now, I would simply walk back the way I had come instead of proceeding forward into t... KRISTY BERRIDGE ...I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so. Mind you, this i... ISAAC ASIMOV If I had it my way, Harper and I wouldn't be standing in this room right now, we wouldn't be pressed... MOLLY MCADAMS For me, it was hard in a different way than with Heath. Because I think Heath was kind of constantly... JAKE GYLLENHAAL The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee... JACK KEROUAC I saw a doctor. I went in case there were any remnants of the summer inside me—sticky, slender fis... OLIVIA SUDJIC It was something I couldn't put my finger on or define clearly, but a whole mishmash of words and in... SARAH DESSEN But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too muc... PAULA COLE All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once i... MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ ...I managed to make it clear that what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured m... ROBERTSON DAVIES I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later,... ARON RALSTON I think someone else told him, ... He didn't even know who I was. It made me feel a little proud. I ... ERYKAH BADU I thought about what I had to do there. Everybody was into it. My whole team was rooting for me. ANGELA WALTER When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she ask... NEIL JACKSON When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank... CARRIE-ANNE MOSS I had just returned to Woodstock from the Midwest - from my father's funeral. The previous week had ... BOB DYLAN I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deepe... EILEEN MYLES I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I ha... JASON SCHWARTZMAN I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhe... DIET EMAN That night after my parents had kissed me good night and closed my door, I got out of bed and took f... SHEILA MOON That girl that had needed to be protected, who had craved stability and comfort . . . she had died U... SARAH J. MAAS Guys get frustrated like Frankie did, and I understand that, ... If it had taken place out of sight,... ADRIAN BELTRE If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt.... LUCAS TILL I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I s... MARKUS ZUSAK It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled a... CAROL BIRCH Nothing could have prepared me for what it looked like. It was really like walking into ancient Rome... LINDSAY DUNCAN My wife said she saw me warm up and she went upstairs behind the bullpen to bring others to watch me... TODD COFFEY What was it like?” Manon asked quietly. “To love.” For love was what it had been—what Asteri... SARAH J. MAAS I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it w... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while ... MARKUS ZUSAK My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had real... DARCEY BUSSELL I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and ... ERIC MCCORMACK I went MS, this can't possibly be happening and it was very scary I had visions of me in a wheelchai... CINDY MILLER For months, something had been bothering me, and I couldn't put my finger on it. It was like seeing ... WIL WHEATON I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in ... DAN O'BRIEN I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I... THéOPHILE GAUTIER I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one re... JERRY WEST One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me bef... SARAH WATERS Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Football was a game that had kicked me around pretty good for a few years. I almost called him and s... AL WALLACE I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so ... STEVE WYNN One of the things that has brought me a lot of success the last five years was performing. At my fir... JENNY PHILLIPS The next thing I know, it picked me up, my chair, with me on it, and threw me to the floor. I had a ... EDNA BEECHRAFT My dad picked me up and rocked me in the chair. I felt small and weak and I wanted to hold him back ... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I h... ORLANDO BLOOM A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I discov... MICHAEL WINTER I almost laughed in spite of my nerves. What were the odds that two werewolves had the hots for BREE DESPAIN If they had told me I was going into something like that, I would have given the keys back. EDDIE SANCHEZ I walked into my support group meeting a few weeks ago, and I had bicycle gear on. They were just be... FRAN WALLIS in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inklin... GAIL CALDWELL (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL That had been one of my goals, since I was a freshman. For me to have a good game like that and to h... ALLIE WOODS Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. 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