Mai

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“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

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma