“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”— Alain de Botton Related Quotes “My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me often—in the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new unreliability in my vision. Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.”— Kristin Hannah “She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.”— Diana Athill “The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”— Dante Alighieri