Ellie

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night