Paula

“Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.”
― Pablo Neruda

“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”
― Piers Anthony

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See