Rachel

“Failure does not predict future failure. It is simply a delay, not defeat. Failure is the seed from which success springs.”
― Cindy Lin

“He was terribly afraid that happiness might be a habit, or a quality knitted into the temperament, or it might be something you learn when you're a child, a kind of language harder than Latin or Greek, that you should have a grasp on by the time you're seven. What if you haven't got that grasp? What if you're in some way happiness-stupid, happiness-blind?”
― Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

“The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary.”
― Katrina Leno, Horrid

“He's not like anyone I've seen before - he's molded by the world, crafted by travel and adventure. There are stories in those eyes, but I don't fall for them easily.”
― Adalyn Grace, All the Stars and Teeth