Julie

“The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not the circumstances.”
― Roald Dahl

“Don’t ever ask directions of a Maine native,” I was told. “Why ever not?” “Somehow we think it is funny to misdirect people and we don’t smile when we do it, but we laugh inwardly. It is our nature.” I wonder if that is true. I could never test it, because through my own efforts I am lost most of the time without any help from anyone.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America

“If I am marching to my death, then I will march to it as a girl. Without fear.”
― Renee Ahdieh, Flame in the Mist

“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.

And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be.

The Good Place”
― Chidi