Jeanne

“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“A wall is a defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

“They say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce