Candice

“The girl behind the counter was prim, but bad at tying ribbons. Inexcusable.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception which reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitman

“Slowly, as waves recede, my expanding spirit shrinks back into earthly dimensions -- not voluntarily, because I would prefer to lose myself, but I am pulled from below, back to myself, into myself, so that for just one moment I am on the couch again, fitting the fingers of my awareness into the glove of my flesh. And I know I can move this finger or wink that eye -- if I want to. But I don't want to move. I will not move!”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon