Andrea Brock

“It seems silly to worry about the arbitrary moment some person long dead declared to be the end of one year and the beginning of another, as if our attempts to divide time into meaningful chunks actually mean anything. People wait for the countdown to tell them it's okay to believe in themselves again. They end each year with failure, but hope that when the clock strikes twelve, they can begin the new year with a clean slate. They tell themselves that this is the year things will happen, never realizing that things are always happening; they're just happening without them.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― Brad Pitt

“There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas.”
― Jason Soroski

“I did not mind the cold so much when he was there.”
― Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring