Tessa Downs

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
― Edith Wharton

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus