Julia Gray

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]”
― Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations