Julia

“And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“After a full belly all is poetry.”
― Frank McCourt

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath