Sara E Conklin

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems