Diana

“When your life is all toil and hardship, the things that matter and the bullshit that doesn’t become easy to separate.”
― Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom

“To grow old is to grow remorseful.”
― Randy Cohen, Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. ”
― Donald Miller