Vivi

“Vincent loves that people in foreign countries sit down to chop. Americans do everything standing up.”
― Leesa Cross-Smith, Half-Blown Rose

“And it all begins,” she says, “with just one moment where something tips, from friendship into something else.”
― Marianne Cronin, Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love

“Zagreb”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“He was right. At the heart of the branch was a dark, five-pointed star. “Your people have a story about this,” he said to Mose. “They say that all the stars in the sky are actually made inside the earth. Then they seek out the roots of cottonwood trees and slip into the wood, where they wait, real patient. Inside the cottonwood, they’re dull and lightless, like you see here. Then, when the great spirit of the night sky decides that more stars are needed, he shakes the branches with his wind and releases the stars. They fly up and settle in the sky, where they shine and sparkle and become the luminous creations they were always meant to be.” He looked at the star in that cottonwood branch with a kind of reverence. “And we’re like that, too. Dreams shook loose. You boys and me and everybody else on God’s earth. Your people, Geronimo, they got a lot of wisdom”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land