Lauren

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.”
― Deb Caletti, The Nature of Jade