a ponderer

“He liked that bones were solid things, surviving even the white heat of cremation. Bones would last; it was easy for him to put his faith in something so solid and predictable.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We're giving them hope. That's better than nothing.'

'Spoken like a man who's never had nothing,' I said, and wheeled my horse away.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I am air and thought and can do nothing.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles