“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”
Robin Hobb book The Mad Ship
Source: The Mad Ship
“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
— Toni Morrison, book Beloved
Source: Beloved
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