Tara Schuster

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
—Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

That which you do not deal with deals with you. Always.

There is an excellent line where Alexander Hamilton challenges Aaron Burr (who seems to have v. shape-shifting, wishy-washy principles): “If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for?”

Life is not a series of crises to be endured. Life is to be enjoyed.