Eva

“We are lucky, even the worst of us, because daylight comes.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate.

I have no father. There's nothing unusual about that -even children who do have fathers are often surprised to see them. My own father came out of the sea and went back that way. He was crew on a fishing boat that harboured with us one night when the waves were crashing like dark glass. His splintered hulll shored him for long enough to drop anchor inside my mother.
Shoals of babies vied for life.
I won.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

“What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”
― Brigitte Bardot