Tamara

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island