Abby Souder

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being