Sarah

“Slowly the pattern of our days grew, and shaped itself into a happy life.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Only then (nearly out the door, so to speak) did I realize how unspeakably beautiful all of this was, how precisely engineered for our pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime thing.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie