Mary

“Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).”
― Wendy Beckett, Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy

“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Kate Atkinson, Case Histories

“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.”
― E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art

“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”
― Kate Atkinson