Kristine

“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
― Victor Hugo

“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We pass for what we are.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson