Will

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
― Edith Wharton

“. . . But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire. That will, wherever it finally leads, does at least move you forward. And after a time you may recognize that the proper measure of success is not how much you've closed the distance to some far-off goal but the quality of what you've done today.”
― Sonia Sodamayor, My Beloved World

“Flannery O'Connor said that a good story "resisted paraphrase”
― Alice LaPlante, The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction