Kell-bell

“Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.”
― Annie Dillard

“He ran his fingers back and forth over the broad crown of the head of a coon dog named Sounder.”
― William H. Armstrong, Sounder

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre