Luna

“I admit it, given a choice, with a handful of exceptions, I tend to prefer the company of animals to the company of people. Animals are honest—there’s not a hint of pretense about them, they just unapologetically are who they are, and their capacity to love and be loved outshines ours by about a million.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Desire is a quest for the beautiful - whatever ''the beautiful'' might mean. Desire is the thing that makes us feel great about the world and therefore be great in it. It is the life force that spurs us on to do, to be, to think.”
― Bettany Hughes, Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

“And to live life well you need to know when to ignore what is expected of you. Even if it means breaking the rules.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“We don’t die, my love, Evelyn had told her, though Lydia remembered her mother’s eyes were red and rimmed with tears. Not really. We change, yes. We become other things—the grass and flowers, trees and wind and stars. We rejoin the Great Mother, and our souls disperse into the universe, and become a part of a hundred million other living things, forever and ever.”
― Morgan Ryan, A Resistance of Witches