Ellie

“Hockey is just a silly little game. We devote year after year after year to it without ever really hoping to get anything in return. We burn and bled and cry, fully aware that the most the sport can give us, in the very best scenario. is incomprehensibly meager and worthless: just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That’s all.
But what the hell else is life made of?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Sobriety, however, can only count as a virtue when there are other virtues to support it.”
― Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea

“Thus has black Pluto changed the reign of Jove,
He seizes half the Earth when he takes thee.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Proserpine And Midas

“Everything limits man but nothing stops him.”
― Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea