Natalie Jane Edson

“Had trouble again with twine. Mad enough to wish I was a bad tornado. Swore at God.’ 18”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“Long ago, abdominal pains were called "cowardice grass." This is because they come suddenly and render a person immobile.”
― Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This”
― Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai