Sarah Whitney

“How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Somebody was leaning out of my bedroom window, refreshing his forehead against the cold stone of the parapet, and feeling the air upon his face. It was myself. I was addressing myself as "Copperfield", and saying, "Why did you try to smoke? You might have known you couldn't do it." Now, somebody was unsteadily contemplating his features in the looking-glass. That was I, too. I was very pale in the looking-glass; my eyes had a vacant appearance; and my hair - only my hair, and nothing else - looked drunk.”
― Charles Dickens

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden