Tonya

“Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.”
― Galway Kinnell

“What we have to do now, then, Sir, is to lay your request before the daughters of educated men and to ask them to help you to prevent war, not by advising their brothers how they shall protect culture and intellectual liberty, but simply by reading and writing their own tongue in such a way as to protect those rather abstract goddesses themselves.”
― Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas

“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.”
― Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas

“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow