Kelly

“What no one tells you is that the road to accomplishing your goals isn’t a straight line; it looks more like a corn maze. You stopped, you went, you backed up, and took a few wrong turns along the way, but the important thing you had to remember was that there was an exit. Somewhere.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“You can’t always wait for someone else to do the right thing when you can do it yourself.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“Almost all grown adults walk around full of regret over a good-bye they wish they’d been able to go back and say better.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King