Bobbie

“Mama is beautiful,” I said. “Mama is strong,” he said. “Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever.” “What about the old people?” “They are the strongest of all, for they have lived longer than all of us, and they have wisdom,” he said, tapping his temple.”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

“I am an apothecary, madam…’ But for some reason he is thinking of the trajectory of winged creatures, of interludes of happiness, a little flight, a little wading through mud.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia”
― E L Konigsburg, 天使雕像

“The coast is a transition zone, always changing. It keeps on changing its dynamics, perpetually, in both space and time.”
― Sally Ann Hunter, Transfigured Sea