Cherie

“Some things in life are beyond human control. But what can be done is to wait, to prepare, to not abandon hope altogether, and, when a bit of luck comes your way, to accept it with gratitude and not take credit for all of it.”
― Cho Nam-joo, Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

“Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.”
― Yiyun Li

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire