Masa Burris

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“sometimes people are broken and don’t know how to mend because they aren’t able to say what they need or deeply want. Sometimes you get to a point in life where you realize you’ve made a terrible mistake and you desperately need to fix it, but it’s so deep and bitterly ingrained you can’t start.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure