Alice Lawson

“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,--
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!”
― Emily Dickinson

“But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South