Ulrikke

“Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

“Cowards spend their lives alone. Either with people who can't hurt them, or with no one at all.”
― Alexander Maksik, You Deserve Nothing

“You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.”
― Diana Vreeland

“I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain, but you'd be surprised if you knew what it had meant to me, at critical moments of my life, to be dressed exactly in accordance with my mood. It gives one such confidence, I think.”
― Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains