Victoria Starbuck

“Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please.
And if you please to call it a rush candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

“It was to him a very strange and perplexing place, where people wore fine clothes and had hard hearts.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!