Keely

“First you must believe there is a soul."

"Do you?"

"If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each wordly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable, even to its own self, yes. I do.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Yes, so it was, everything came back, which had not been suffered and solved up to its end, the same pain was suffered over and over again.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I can stand a lot! But just because I can, does that mean I must? Do I have to bear everyone’s weakness? Can I not have my own?”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars