Annie

“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
― Immanuel Kant

“When we commemorate the end of a war, we neglect the way that it began. Every war ends, after all; but not every war had to begin.”
― Timothy Snyder (author)

“I do not see that it is necessary for any people to prove to another that they build cathedrals or pyramids before they can be entitled to peace and safety.”
― Chinua Achebe, The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

“And this sense, this feeling of communion, would at moments overwhelm him. At such times he had the sensation that there was only one book in the universe, and that all books were simply portals into this greater ongoing work—an inexhaustible, beautiful world that was not imaginary but the world as it truly was, a book without beginning or end.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North