Rosemary

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion