Holly

“Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style

“Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent.”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“She was a foreigner and, like all foreigners, she carried with her the shadow of an elsewhere.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“Isn't it far better to live a poetic life than to spend one's life writing Poetry?”
― Pietros Maneos, The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos