Charlotte Bea

“Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy. Often before falling asleep - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and enter the greater world - often, before having the courage to go toward the greatness of sleep, I pretend that someone is holding my hand and I go, go toward the enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even then I can't find the courage, then I dream.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“In my view, all art begins in that instant of intuitive preference.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“Only one who loves can remember so well.”
― Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma