"He pours for me. The coffee is hot and thick and biting. Nearly deadly. Delicious." - Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer
"But, I don't know, maybe it takes a long time to figure out what you're truly searching for. Maybe you spend your whole life to figure out a small part of it." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
"Was this my punishment? To live out the reality of my dream and find out that its glittering beauty faded to nothing when I stepped close?" - Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
Mary Oliver, from “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird
“‘What if we go on … only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?’
…
‘Then it is not the end.’”
— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4)
“Human lives are based on pain. But to have a few moments of happiness, lightnings tearing the darkness of the sky, that is worth it.”
- Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
"It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours and then be willing to let it go." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
"'Look at all the colors,' she said. 'It's like the sky is on fire. Burning up the whole day. Nature has so much power if we just pay attention." - Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer
""There is a saying,'What got you here won't get you there.'" "What does it mean?" I ask "That the same set of circumstances, beliefs, actions that got you to a moment won't get you to what comes next. If you want a different outcome, you have to behave differently. That you have to keep evolving."" - Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer