Janelle Rae

“You can keep your passive hope and blind faith, and I’ll take the despair. Because at least the despair is real. I’d rather live in a grim reality than a comfortable delusion.”
― Evan Grinde, Chasing Oblivion

“Anne reveled in the world of color about her.

"Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“start working- rarely resting- seemingly driven by a fatalistic sense that work that has to be done was best done as quickly as possible.”
― Richard Rodriguez

“Okay, kids,' Dad said, 'the civilians are revolting. We better skedaddle.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle