Haley Pfeil

“lacuna”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“There have been times in my life when, confronted by black and hopeless circumstances, I have discovered in myself undreamed-of resources of courage and resolution.”
― James Herriot, All Things Bright and Beautiful

“The prolongation of light meant the cessation of traditional stories in European cottages. And when the cottages took in American kerosene or paraffin there was prolongation. Then came lamps with full and steady light, lamps that gave real illumination. Told under this illumination the traditional stories ceased to be appropriate because the rhythm that gave them meaning was weakened. Other things happened to put traditional stories out of date. Young people went to schools and learned to read. The world reached into the villages; wars and the doings of congresses interested country people more and more. Claiming attention for the happenings of the day before, the newspaper reader took the place of the traditional storyteller, the man of memories.”
― Jacob Grimm, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

“To feed her love on melancholy sorrow”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses