Lily

“To look at oneself and find it hideous, what a job! But then, when she hadn’t been hideous, had she sat around and stared at herself like this? Not much! A proper body’s not an object, not an implement, not a belonging to be admired, it’s just you, yourself. Only when it’s no longer you, but yours, a thing owned, do you worry about it— Is it in good shape? Will it do? Will it last?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Day Before the Revolution

“I mean," she said "that one can't help growing older."
"One can't perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty " but two can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven”
― Lewis Carroll

“The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion.”
― Marquis de Sade

“When everything goes to hell around you, the only way to go is forward.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost