Ysabel

“I'd love that" I said.
"Really?"
"Yes, really"
"It might get pretty scary sometimes"
"Knowing more about yourself, you mean?"
She nodded. "If you want to know yourself better you have to bring in something different from someplace else”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“No experience is in itself a cause of our success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences—the so-called trauma—but instead we make out of them whatever suits our purposes. We are not determined by our experiences, but the meaning we give them is self-determining.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner