Lucia

“Children are very wise
intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“And when I got down off the bed and looked around me, I remember I suddenly felt that I could look at these unhappy creatures with quite different eyes, and that suddenly by some miracle all hatred and anger had vanished utterly from my heart. I walked about, looking into the faces that I met. That shaven peasant, branded on his face as a criminal, bawling his hoarse, drunken song, may be that very Marey; I cannot look into his heart. I met M. again that evening. Poor fellow! he could have no memories of Russian peasants, and no other view of these people but: ”Je haïs ces brigands!“ Yes, the Polish prisoners had more to bear than I.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Peasant Marey

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace