Harriet

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Come close, you precious
Graces and Muses
With beautiful tresses.
Here is the reason: it is wrong
To play a funeral song
In the Musicians’ House –
It simply would not be decorous.”
― Sappho

“No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into ...”
― Anne Lamott

“And now again the story of Tripoli changes.
But whatever the outcome, she will have still her limpid skies, her air like wine, and a climate where it is a sin to acknowledge an ache or a pain, old age or unhappiness. ”
― Mabel Loomis Todd, Tripoli The Mysterious