Karen Abboud

“My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?”
― The Brothers Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

“Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.”
― The Brothers Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

“That's the reason they're called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.”
― Lewis Carroll