I've made peace with myself.Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
~ Willa Cather