Earlina

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness