Lyra

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life

“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.”
― Doris Lessing

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre