Olivia

“Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon