Merry

“What were the children doing up there?" "I don't know. Likely same as you. Why did you go as a child?" Isobel felt her cheeks warm. "I was looking for buried treasure." "Did you ever find your treasure?" Julius asked. "I'm still looking." "I'll add 'delusional' to my notes.”
― Sabrina Flynn, The Devil's Teeth

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“Happy? Most of the time? Happiness is always a fleeting thing," he said, "It never rests upon anyone as a permanent state, though many of us persist in believing in the foolish idea that if this would just happen or that we would be happy for the rest of our lives. I know moments of happiness just as most other people do. Perhaps I have learned to find it in ways that would pass some people by. I feel the summer heat here at this moment and see the trees and the water and hear that invisible gull overhead. I feel the novelty of having company when I usually come here alone. And this moment brings me happiness.”
― Mary Balogh

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone