Milly

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey