Nina

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked.

He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say anything. He continued: "Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier