Ellie

“.I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.... Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive.”
― Chris Cleave

“Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“The amount a person can spare is relative; the value of generosity is not.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
― John Muir