“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
Peyton’s 2025 Year in Books
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