Jillian Schroeder

“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand And Stars

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost