Allison

“None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.”
― Kenneth Oppel, Skybreaker

“Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?”
― Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer

“GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current…”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Oh Harry," [Gwen] said. "I wish I were a different kind of person."

What kind of person, he wanted to know.

"Someone," she said slowly, "who truly loves life."

He was still looking at her, still cradling his glasses in his left hand. He said, "You're the kind of person who never stops trying.”
― Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air