I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.
Leigh NewmanMy mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.
Leigh NewmanI don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.
Leigh NewmanWhile you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart...once you realize the difference between what you can control and what you can't, and that it's far, far more fun to lavish all that attention on your own self-worth.
Leigh NewmanMost kids who grow up in Alaska and spend a fair degree of time in the wilderness, grow up being pretty self-reliant. You have to be, in order to survive all the animals and cliffs and crevasses and rapids - at some point, your brain has to kick [out of] that childish daydream world and start making I-want-to-live decisions.
Leigh Newman