Maria

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman