Alicia Tapia

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Still there was so much to say. How the rain never stopped. How the cold worked into your bones. Sometimes the bravest thing on earth was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones. Courage was not always a matter of yes or no. Sometimes it came in degrees, like the cold; sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave. In certain situations you could do incredible things, you could advance toward enemy fire, but in other situations, which were not nearly so bad, you had trouble keeping your eyes open. Sometimes, like that night in the shit field, the difference between courage and cowardice was something small and stupid.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“He was not living his life; life was living him”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“Grandpapa used to say, about difficulties he had gone through, 'It did not kill me, it made me knowledgeable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun