Ruth

“It’s always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I’ve experienced has left a visible mark; sometimes, without a way to prove it to myself, I began to doubt that I had lived through it at all, with the memories becoming hazy over time. I want to have some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don’t disappear forever— I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.”
― Cameron Dokey, Belle

“What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very
different things.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves