Lauren

“The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.”
― E.M. Forster

“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.”
― Emilio Estevez

“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings