Frances

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“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

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

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