Frances

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Craik

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

“The truth is that no matter how long and hard you try—you cannot struggle your way out of a straitjacket that does not exist. But pretending it exists, for whatever the reason, really does leave you in a severely restricted posture.”
― Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race