Sofia✨

“Qui io tendevo da sempre. Da quando il mio tempo è cominciato. E quando me ne andrò di qui, questo sarà il punto mediano, a cui tutto correva, prima, e da cui tutto si allontanerà.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“You are like Odysseus, who could go out onto the great sea, lose all his goods and his friends, come to the boundaries of death, and return still himself.”
― Gillian Bradshaw, The Beacon at Alexandria

“My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson