Rucy

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell