Raphaelle Lamour

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South