Emma

“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

“In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“And I know I said earlier that he was perfect but he wasn’t perfect, far from it; he could be silly and vain and remote and often cruel and still we loved him, in spite of, because.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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