Julia

“Either you have lived well, in which case you can go your way satisfied, like a well-fed guest leaving a party. Or you have not, but then it makes no difference that you are losing your life, since you obviously did not know what to do with it anyway.”
― Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

“Jo March : I can't believe childhood is over.
Meg March : It was going to end one way or another. And what a happy end.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Come, love, make me better than I was. Come teach me a kinder way to say my own name”
― Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

“His past selves were as diverse as a group of people at a party. Just as he would not think of passing judgment on a roomful of acquaintances, all of whom had their own reasons and points of view to explain what they had done, so he would not think of judging previous versions of Montaigne.”
― Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer