Annarella

“Souls are like athletes that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers.”
― Anonymous

“Gli antichi stoici parlavano del “costruire la propria statua”, non nel senso di autoincensarsi, ma di fare della propria vita un capolavoro, un’opera di quotidiana scultura.”
― Anonymous

“We all—adults and children, writers and readers—have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.”
― Ed Lynskey, Fur the Win