Hannah

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier