Julia

“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.”
― Cassandra Clare

“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets