Kelle Treadwell

“Beauty is a promise of happiness.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

“I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“Competence was attractive.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The contest lay not between love and duty. Perhaps there never is such a contest. It lay between the real and the pretended, and Lucy's first aim was to defeat herself.”
― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View