Zaira

“Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“But whatever is lost, something else always grows back in its place. A big tree falls in a storm, a hundred-year-old tree that’s utterly irreplaceable, and yet when the tree goes, so does its shade. And when it’s gone, there’s light for the first time and something different grows back in its place.”
― Ronan Hession, Panenka

“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”
― Allama Iqbal