Karen

“Who can say what obscure forces were then at work in a heart that had never been tamed?”
― Allain Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes

“For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.”
― Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked

“But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming, habitual fondness, not having meant to keep us waiting long.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud