Barbara

“You must make your own map of the world. Search out your own piece of sky and patch of earth, your own awning to sleep under when it is raining and it feels the sun may never shine again, for there will certainly be such days. No one can walk this path for you. You cannot simply follow in another's footsteps, as though life were a complicated dance, every turn and twist memorized and prepared for ahead of time. There are many things in the world you can inherit: money, land, power, a crown. But an adventure is not one of them; you must make your own journey.”
― Katherine J. Chen, Joan

“But happiness is a liar, for it makes us believe it will last forever, when it never does.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“The poets say that men are made for glory, but gods want glory for themselves. So to make men vulnerable, they gave them the gift of love.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would have been no good reason to make or release a Nebraska. The album made it impossible to use the word "sellout.”
― Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska