Katia Pisula

“She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“dejectedly”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master