Maggie

“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“We are all collateral damage for someone's beautiful
Ideology, all of us inanimate in the face of the onslaught.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Book of What Remains

“But it was even worse when you knew at that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn’t even budge.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby