Tommy Everson

“Where does music go when it’s not playing?—she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright, like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful of her purity, was laid out in fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse