You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

I don't think unhappiness is fated.

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.