Tikali

“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby