Mary

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed-and-breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, “Be whole,” and they would become whole, not be broken people, not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane