Karen

“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
― Seneca

“Maybe, in the end, that's all that love was - doing the hard thing. Not roses and valentines and walks on the beach, but simply being present, day after ordinary day. The extraordinary romanticism of ordinary life.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Honor

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche