Kimberly

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“That’s what we women do. From the hour of our birth to the birth of our daughters to the dying of our grandmothers and mothers, we spin pain on our looms into a joyful fabric, for what would be the point of doing less?”
― Karen Marie Moning, The House at Watch Hill

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Mom used to say many people waste their lives in a liminal no-man’s-land, stranded on a bridge between their tragic past and their uncertain future. The more they glance back, the more afraid they become to go forward. And there is, she’d told me, but one escape from that bridge. Live now, my darling Zo. That’s all we have anyway. The past is baggage lost at the airport; don’t present your claim check. The uncertain future is nothing but fear about things that will likely never come to pass.”
― Karen Marie Moning, The House at Watch Hill