Olivia Gonzalez

“Weekdays revolved on a sameness wheel. They turned into themselves so steadily and inevitably that each seemed to be the original of yesterday's rough draft. Saturday, however, always broke the mold and dared to be different.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
― Pablo Picasso