Grace

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God