Ellie

“Her grandmother had once told her that one could blame ugliness on one's genes and ignorance on one's education, but there was absolutely no excuse whatsoever for being dull.”
― Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things

“For Beatrice,
I cherished, you perished,
The world's been nightmarished.”
― Lemony Snicket, The End

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita