Enid Brinkley

“The more I reach for her soul, the more I connect with mine.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“Ci sono domande che si negano da sé per il solo fatto di essere state poste. E ci sono richieste la cui totale inutilità si manifesta quando uno le esprime guardando negli occhi il suo interlocutore.”
― Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

“I don't think human beans are all that bad-"
"They're bad and they're good," said Pod; "they're honest and they're artful- it's just as it takes them at the moment".”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

“Do you know what a poem is, Esther?'
No, what?' I would say.
A piece of dust.'
Then, just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.'
And of course Buddy wouldn't have any answer to that, because what I said was true. People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick or couldn't sleep.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar