Jeannie

“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.”
― Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets