Monique Hides

“E.E Cummings wrote, "To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight- and never stop fighting.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger