Maddy

“Keep away from the literal-minded folk, and ignore the scoffers.”
― Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth

“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you - you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Why do I thrash about, why do I fuss inside this narrow, limited frame, when life, the whole of life, with all its joys, is open to me?”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent