helen blake

“She had disengaged her wrist; but for a moment they continued to hold each other's eyes, and he saw that her face, which had grown very pale, was flooded with a deep inner radiance. His heart beat with awe: he felt that he had never before beheld love visible.”
― Edith Wharton

“Because there are times when we human beings wish, from the depths of our souls, for something we know to be beyond anyone's reach.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Once - unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange ; the low stature, the wiry make , the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. Now, penetrated with his influence, and living by his affection, having his worth by intellect, and his goodness by heart - I preferred him before all humanity.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette