Sara

“Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man – let me offer you a definition – is the story-telling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories, he has to keep on making them up. As long as there’s a story, it’s all right. Even in his last moments, it’s said, in the split second of a fatal fall – or when he’s about to drown – he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.”
― Graham Swift, Waterland

“The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.”
― Hannibal

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

“For I hear music, they were saying. Music wakes us. Music makes us see the hidden, join the broken. Look and listen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts