Isabella

“Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.”
― Elena Ferrante

“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.”
― Elena Ferrante, Fragments: Elena Ferrante on Writing, Reading, and Anonymity