Emily

“Can anything be more idiotic than certain people who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves officiously preoccupied in order to improve their lives; they spend their lives in organizing their lives. They direct their purposes with an eye to a distant future. But putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining?”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“What the war did to dreamers.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -”
― Louisa May Alcott