Evelyn

“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
― Henry James, The art of fiction

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.”
― W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays