Basil Luecht

“Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.”
― George Eliot

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”
― Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature

“There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Her husband's visage captivated her from the first moment she saw him step out of the royal carriage a hundred years ago. How could it not? Flaminius was utterly gorgeous. But once she fell in love with him, she became happily enslaved.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame