Victoria

“I've been so unhappy for years, so unhappy . . . I don't understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Love is not everything, Mademoiselle,' Poirot said gently. 'It is only when we are young that we think it is.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“If I lived by the sea I would never be really sad. I get an immense sense of eternity and peace from the ocean. I can lose myself in staring at it hour after hour.

--from a letter to Aurelia Plath, written c. July 1951”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956

“Prayer is telephoning to God,
and intuition is God
telephoning to you.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Magic Path of Intuition