Natalie

“...A branch tapping at a window as the sound of horns began; as if the tree, being unsettled by wind, had somehow caused the music. It seems that at that moment she began to inhabit the world; to understand the promises implied by an order larger than human happiness, though it contained human happiness along with every other emotion.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“This hotel, this lobby, is precisely what she wants--the cool nowhere of it, the immaculate non-smell, the brisk unemotional comings and going's. She feels, immediately, like a citizen of this place. It is so competent, so unconcerned.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“It seemed to him as if the river had something special to tell him, something which he did not know, something which still awaited him. Siddhartha had wanted to drown himself in this river; the old, tired, despairing Siddhartha was today drowned in it. The new Siddhartha felt a deep love for this flowing water and decided that he would not leave it again so quickly.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Farewell, my friends,' I told them. 'Be good to one another'... I wondered if I was leaving the snakes with a new religion; if they would tell stories to future generations about the strange rainbow god boy who tripped a lot before returning to the heavens. Or maybe they were just thinking, That kid is really weird.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods