Rachel

“Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.”
― Fred Rogers, You Are Special: Neighborly Wit And Wisdom From Mister Rogers

“I loved him for his beauty.
As I would again if he came near.
Beauty convinces.”
― Anne Carson

“So, even for those of us who can't personally witness Salome's dance, the fifth veil surely will fall. It will fall at the moment of our death. As we lie there, helpless, beyond distraction, electricity stealing out of our brains like a con man stealing out of a sucker's neighborhood, it will occur to many of us that everything we ever did, we did for money. And at that instant, right before the stars blink off, we will, according to what else we may have learned in life, burn with an unendurable regret--or have us a good silent laugh at our own expense.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All