Olivia

“Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison. Some part of you which you deeply value lies forever impaled at a crossroads you can no longer find and never forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.”
― Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

“Words are like stories ... They change as they are passed from mouth to mouth; their meanings stretch or truncate to fit what needs to be said.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“We can't always make the choices we'd like, but we can try to make the best of what we must settle for.'

[Lizzie Lester]”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words