Mia

“I sometimes derived the impression, from his manner, or from a whispered word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have been a better man under better circumstances. But he never justified himself by a hint tending in that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being. should be wretched.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein