Laura

“The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy.
'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“The summer had been mad. It had been like a badger caught in a tarred barrel, fed on chilli an forced to listen to chanting monks.”
― Peter Benson, Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke

“She will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring