For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. And if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,

How good to have things like this, to be worshipped again, to pretend to have a mystery!

To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed — it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.

You don’t know what a trial it is to be — like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.