Viva

“To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”
― Czesław Miłosz

“On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Joss and I felt guilty; we were still at the age when we thought being greedy was a childish fault and this gave our guilt a tinge of hopelessness because, up to then, we had believed that as we grew older our faults would disappear, and none of them did.”
― Rumer Godden, The Greengage Summer

“By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life.”
― M.J. Andersen