Rachel

“Yes, she thought about death because she had discovered something else as well: there are certain treasures that kill you if you can't share them with others.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

“People go through life eating lamb chops and breaking their mother’s hearts.”
― Eve Babitz, Sex and Rage

“If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart.”
― Ram Dass, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying

“I wanted a Fakahatchee ghost orchid, in full bloom, maybe attached to a gnarled piece of custard apple tree, and I wanted its roots to spread as broad as my hand and each root to be only as wide as a toothpick. I wanted the bloom to be snow-white, white as sugar, white as lather, white as teeth. I knew its shape by heart, the peaked face with the droopy mustache of petals, the albino toad with its springy legs. It would not be the biggest or the showiest or the rarest or the finest flower here, except to me, because I wanted it.”
― Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief