Torie Reado

“The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.”
― E.B. White, One Man's Meat

“And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“She felt that it was only her body that was getting old. Inside she had always been the same young girl.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”
― Jeannette Walls