Jillian

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It was, perhaps, no situation from which to face a charging badger.”
― William Golding, The Paper Men

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'
I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.'
That is not what I meant,' interrupted my father, as obstinate as the trees and as pitiless as the sky.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way