Hannah Pelletier

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather