Emma Gaustad

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea