Maria

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come...”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“so hot that August comes on not like a month but like an affliction;”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays