Vanessa

“Because that’s the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don’t start when you’re ready or stop when you’re tired.”
― Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

“It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.”
― Antonia Fraser, My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

“If you want to have a child in order to have a beautiful, permanent experience, just get a tattoo of a dolphin riding a unicorn over a manatee, It will always be with you, stay exactly the way you made it, and bring you and the world joy without ever crashing your car or getting a stupid tattoo of its own.”
― Sarah Bennett, F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems

“Any man who is truly worthy must consider himself unworthy.”
― Robert Harris, Conclave