Brittany

“I very nearly wished that I had been born a Hattifattener under the Hattifatteners' vague and drifting stars, and that no one expected anything else of me than that I also should be drifting along toward an unattainable horizon, never speaking to anyone and never mindful of anything.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominpappa's Memoirs

“The tree said in its rooted being, "All my leaves are seen, but one, this one in the darkness cast by all the others. This one leaf I keep secret to myself. Who will see it in the darkness of my leaves? and who will count the number of them?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“No doubt it was the truth, or so distorted in her mind that, to her, it became so.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

“In strange dreams we see ourselves most vividly.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, Strange Dreams