Audrey

“But Fate was in an impish mood that night.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step On The Stair

“Now that she had no strength, now that life stretched around her a dreary procession of sullen, useless days, she realized the beauty inherent in life itself, the miracle of health and sane nerves, of the ability to make a living, of being helpful to others.”
― Jessie Redmon Fauset, There Is Confusion

“Change always has to start at home, then pushed out into the world.”
― Jay Alden Bailey, Mudflap: The Gloves Come Off

“As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?”
― W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man