Lina

“Go to bed, you fool,” Calcifer said sleepily. “You’re drunk.” “Who, me?” said Howl. “I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping only to land away from where you are.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“You are made for perfection, but you are not yet perfect. You are a masterpiece in the making.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World