Conception

“To experience this again uncovers an essential part of myself long forgotten.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

“UCL made provision for women to study science. Skinner told Humphry that a good Fabian should consider his daughters’ education as seriously as his sons’. Humphry said that Dorothy—and Griselda—were still only little girls. Hardly, said Skinner, smiling at the two serious young faces. Hardly. They would be young women any moment, he could see. His look made Dorothy feel unexpectedly heated, on her skin, and also inside her. She wriggled a little and sat straighter. Griselda said she didn’t think her parents saw any need for her to be educated. Skinner said, it should be enough that she wanted to be educated.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book

“Staring at the wraith’s left hand, Zam saw a stump where its index finger should have been and knew then that the severed finger moving around in his pocket belonged to the wraith.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

“But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess