Kate

“But you can't say no to a birthday present, so she took the little pony to her room, where it ate things it shouldn't have, and farted too much.”
― Kate Beaton, The Princess and the Pony

“Happiness that comes at someone else's expense isn't happiness - especially if that someone else is precious to you.”
― Naoki Higashida, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism

“This life is so complex that we rarely get to be the people we are truly meant to be. Instead, we wear masks and put up walls to keep from dealing with the fear of rejection, the feeling of regret, the very idea that someone may not love us for who we are deep in our core, that they might not understand the things that drive us. I want to study the realness of life, not the gloss. There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all.”
― Catherine Doyle, Vendetta

“I felt something rise inside me then, a feeling of joy and anticipation so great that it seemed as if this world had briefly stopped turning, like there was just me and the universe and a million good things that could happen if you only hung on in there.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me