Geri

“The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden full of dahlias and rusty rose-bushes encircled a ghostly summer-house of trellis-work that had once been white, surmounted by a wooden Cupid who had lost his bow and arrow but continued to take ineffectual aim.”
― Edith Wharton

“we are all born/ so beautiful/ the greatest tragedy is/ being convinced we are not”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“The fool is happy that he knows no more”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy