Eleanor B

“It was one of those golden autumn afternoons and there were blackberries and splashes of old man's beard in the hedges, and the hawthorn berries were ripening scarlet for the birds when the cold winter came along. There were tall trees here and there on either side, oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living”
― e.e. cummings, Him: A Play