Heather

“A person's desires, the things a person found beautiful, were probably best kept to oneself.”
― Victor Lodato

“You are young and just entering into life,' said He; 'Your heart new to the world
and full of warmth and sensibility, receives its first impressions with eagerness.
Artless yourself, you suspect not others of deceit; and viewing the world through the
medium of your own truth and innocence, you fancy all who surround you to deserve
your confidence and esteem. What pity, that these gay visions must soon be
dissipated! What pity, that you must soon discover the baseness of mankind, and
guard against your fellow-creatures as against your Foes!”
― Matthew Gregory Lewis

“What I really fear is time. That's the devil: whipping us on when we'd rather loll, so the present sprints by, impossible to grasp, and all is suddenly past, a past that won't hold still, that slides into these inauthentic tales. My past- it doesn't feel real in the slightest. The person who inhabited it is not me. It's as if the present me is constantly dissolving. There's that line from Heraclitus: 'No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.' That's quite right. We enjoy this illusion of continuity, and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.”
― Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre