Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.

Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered.
It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

Every end is a new beginning

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.