Alistair

“He wanted actually to live inside the dream that captured his eye, to spend his days and nights in a fume of burnished gold.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

“Lord, let not our souls be busy inns that have no room for thee or thine,
But quiet homes of prayer and praise, where thou mayest find fit company,
Where the needful cares of life are wisely ordered and put away,
And wide, sweet spaces kept for thee; where holy thoughts pass up and down
And fervent longings watch and wait thy coming.”
― Julian of Norwich

“A young girl, a frailty, simple and true, who had been unable to stand up from the piano and had had to be carried; a girl half his age; a girl who could not shoot a gun, had never been in an oyster house, atop a tower, or under the wharves; a girl hotter always than noon in August; a girl who knew nothing; had thrown him so hard that he would be out of breath forever.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

“Don't settle… The worst thing will be to find the man or woman that truly deserves you after you've married one who doesn't.”
― Nike Thaddeus