Carolyn

“We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.”
― Mary Oliver

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“You see, but you do not observe.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

“Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle