Sinead

“Some say that Love, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies.”
― Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut

“The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution.”
― Barbara Goldsmith, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie

“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”
― Julian Barnes, A Life with Books

“She walks in the loveliness she made,
Between the apple-blossom and the water--
She walks among the patterned pied brocade,
Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Land