"There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love."― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves."― Julian Barnes, The ...
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place."― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet