Sarah

“No one seems to have thought of the fact that life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than being a failure. It's just more comfortable. And even then: I think lucidity gives your success a bitter taste, whereas mediocrity still leaves hope for something.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.”
― Dodie Smith

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women