Lauren

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook