Devin Andrus

“All our discontents about what we want, appeared to me, spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“On the Acropolis, he’d thought she’d seen too much sun for a woman but in the courtyard, under the moon, her face, neck, and arms were as pale as the moon goddess. Allowing himself to imagine it was the moon goddess leading him upward was a way of climbing to the second story.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“I said I fell down.
Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once.
I said I don't want to talk about it.”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”
― John Steinbeck