Essy

“That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“She agreed with everything that was planned for her, and made her own arrangements later, for she had discovered that the easiest way through life was to set out obediently upon the appointed path and then slip away down a side turning.”
― Elizabeth Cadell, The Fledgling

“I can't help feeling that people ask too much [of life]. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more--they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap.”
― Elizabeth Cadell, Out of the Rain

“It was terrible if you looked at things the way they could have been, but if you concentrated on what there was, it didn't look too bad.”
― Elizabeth Cadell, The Fledgling