Emma

“Summer late evening
my friend the sunset
to surprise me
took the most interesting streets
Late he was
Longer than ever before”
― Mary Ruefle, Dunce

“I shall write it in my diary to-night.’
‘What?’
‘That a burnt child loves the fire.’
‘I am not even singed. My wings are untouched.’
‘You use them for everything, except flight.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The other afternoon, when you fell asleep on my shoulder, I drifted off, too. But before I did, it occurred to me looking around at all of your things and your work and going through years of work in my mind, that of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids