Mariam

“Polky Polky I used to call it."
"Dot Dot, actually."
Hanne smiled. "Dot Dot. I thought you were the most beautiful singer in the whole world."
Oda felt pitched up onto the crest of a wave, like one of those boats far out at sea.”
― Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

“The scent of Cabeswater, all tress after rain, drifted past Adam, and he realized that while he'd been looking at Ronan, Ronan had been looking at him.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“The previous evening, she had seen James bend down to where his father was sitting at the table and plant on the crown of his head a quick, firm kiss, like a kiss for the head of a baby; just in passing, just as through it meant nothing at all.”
― Belinda McKeon, Tender

“She could stand anything. Tara was worth it all. For a brief moment, it was mid-summer and the afternoon skies were blue and she lay drowsily in the thick clover of Tara's lawn, looking up at the billowing cloud castles, the fragrance of white blossoms in her nose and the pleasant humming of bees in her ears. Afternoon and hush and the far-off sounds of the wagons coming in from the spiraling red fields. Worth it all, worth more.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind