Heloise Jacobs

“Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.”
― Velma Wallis, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

“... consider letting nature's little discomforts in every now and then: the wind, the rain, and the dirt; the healing elements we've tried to abolish for a more comfortable way of life.”
― Elise Rose Richmond, Take It Outside

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded—and how pitiful that was.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending