Manon*

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

“We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

“Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
― Nasir-i Khusraw

“I didn’t exactly want to get divorced. I didn’t exactly not want to. I believed in almost equal measure both that divorcing Paul was the right thing to do and that by doing so I was destroying the best thing I had. By then my marriage had become like the trail in that moment when I realized there was a bull in both directions. I simply made a leap of faith and pushed on in the direction where I’d never been.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail