Isabelle Dantas

“No, I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it – or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn