Olive

“For women live much more in the past than we do- they attach themselves to places.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Tell me about a complicated man.
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost
when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,
and where he went, and who he met, the pain
he suffered in the storms at sea, and how
he worked to save his life and bring his men
back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools,
they ate the Sun God’s cattle, and the god
kept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus,
tell the old story for our modern times.
Find the beginning.”
― Emily Wilson, The Odyssey

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us?”
― Emily Dickinson