Aramis

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read”
― James Baldwin

“It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave.’ ‘Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I’ll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray—but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted