Kathy

“Of course, it was the fashion when we were young to have ideals—we all had them, it was the proper thing for young girls. You were going to nurse lepers, Jane, and I was going to be a nun. One gets over all that nonsense. Marriage, I suppose one might say, knocks it out of one.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“Introspection is a bit like castor oil. It might be good for you, but it's so difficult to swallow.”
― Monique Martin, The Devil's Due

“Never lift your foot till you come to the stile.”
― Hugh Lofting, The Story of Doctor Dolittle

“Early in life we recognize certain talents in ourselves, and we focus on those to the exclusion of others. It’s not that nothing else is possible, but that nothing else was nurtured.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls