Mia Redgrave

“Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Widow Ching-Pirate

“The point is that the pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing.”
― George Orwell, Some Thoughts on the Common Toad

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End