✦ Ana ✦

“There’s something stronger than death, and that’s the presence of those absent in the memory of the living.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

“the secret that our poets and philosophers have been trying to tell us for centuries, is that our longing is the great gateway to belonging.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“I hate it when my head, heart and aspirations are filled to the brim only with career. The rest of me hangs around like a jacket on the back of a doorknob.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Death begins when no one can dream of you any longer.” It’s on the grave of a young nurse, Marie Deschamps, who died in 1917. Apparently, it was a soldier who put up this plaque in 1919. Every time I go past it, I wonder whether he dreamt of her for a long time.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers