Belynda

“The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.”
― Catherynne M. Valente

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”
― Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

“...If only Dad hadn't cheated. If only Mom had found a way to be happier. If only Nina hadn't run away. If only I could deal with it better. 'If' and 'only' are the two most useless words in the human vocabulary, Dr. Hakim had made a habit of saying. They should never be used together in a sentence, because they speak of something that's beyond your ability to change. A waste of energy.”
― Harper Bliss, At the Water's Edge

“I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now."
Vronsky”
― Leo Tolstoy, Ana Karenina