Helen

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get--a cold sick feeling, deep down inside--when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light