Shina Stark

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar