Eleanor

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The dusk passed into dark, and the desert stars came out in the soft sky, stars stabbing and sharp, with few points and rays to them, and the sky was velvet. And the heat changed. While the sun was up, it was a beating, flailing heat, but now the heat came from below, from the earth itself, and the heat was thick and muffling.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he was soaring sunward. His heart trembled in an ecstasy of fear and his soul was in flight. His soul was soaring in an air beyond the world and the body he knew was purified in a breath and delivered of incertitude and made radiant and commingled with the element of the spirit. An ecstasy of flight made radiant his eyes and wild his breath and tremulous and wild and radiant his windswept limbs.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath