Michelle Walsh

“Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon

“Amicable numbers are two different numbers related in the sense that when you add all their proper divisors together—not including the original number itself—the sums of their divisors equal each other. The numbers—esteemed by mathematicians—are considered amicable because the proper divisors of 220 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55 and 110 which, when added together, reach 284. And the proper divisors of 284 are 1, 2, 4, 71 and 142, of which the sum is 220.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon

“Is it not better," she said, "to lead a good fashion than to follow a bad one?”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.”
― Edna O'Brien, Girls in Their Married Bliss