Lava

“It is not easy for a man to begin to think; but once he has begun he will never leave off. Once a thinker, always a thinker, and the understanding once practised in reflection will never rest.”

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

“Great men are under no illusion with respect to their superiority; they see it and know it, but they are none the less modest. The more they have, the better they know what they lack.”

I think too deeply about everything. I still don't know if that allows me to see more of the world, or less of it.

You know I’m old in some ways. In others, well, I’m just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness and I dread responsibility.