Olivia Oudinot

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary