A sure way to lose happiness,

I found,

is to want it at the expense of everything else.

-Bette Davis

Do what you will,

this world's a fiction

and is made up of contradiction.

-William Blake

"Life does sometimes follow art,

though admittedly at odd and refracted angles."

-Matilda Bruckner,

Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadours (1992)

It's no use going back to yesterday,

because I was a different person then.

-Alice in Wonderland