Astoria (Jax)

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“‎"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?"
"It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.”
― Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard