Sofia

“Nina was in it with all of her heart now, as only those who have been hurt and learned to trust again truly can be. It was if once your heart has been broken you learn of the deepest reserves it carries.”
― Taylor Jekins Reid

“Quit whilst fortune is smiling, as all good gamblers do. A graceful retreat is as important as a brave assault, safeguarding achievements once these are enough, and especially when they're more than enough.”
― Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

“A people needs defeat just as an individual needs suffering and misfortune: they compel the deepening of the inner life and generate a spiritual upsurge.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“Many things that were something are nothing if left alone, and others that were nothing turn into much because we pay attention to them.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle