Falisha

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“This moment may come to us all, at some point in our eventutal move from health into sickness. We abandon our old obligation to consider the needs of others, and give ourselves up to their care. There is a shift in status. We become citizens of a new realm, and although we retain the best and worst of our former selves we are no longer bodily in command of our fates.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“At a very early period she had apprehended the instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”
― Kate Chopin

“To all who walk the dark path, and to those who walk in the sunshine but hold out a hand in the darkness to travel beside us: Brighter days are coming. Clearer sight will arrive. And you will arrive too. No, it might not be forever. The bright moments might be for a few days at a time, but hold on for those days. Those days are worth the dark.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things