Emily Richards

“Nothing boosts confidence quite like simulating a disaster, engaging with it fully, both physically and intellectually, and realising you have the ability to work the problem.”
― Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“SHORE-LARK
During the week, the shore-lark works in the City and flies home every night with its mate in Wimbledon, where it is a model husband and father. At weekends, however, it migrates briefly on Brighton, on any of one hundred pretexts, where is meets female shore-larks under the pier and seeks to recapture its lost youth.”
― Alan Coren

“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.”
― William Blake

“As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp