Elsbeth Kwant

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A hoverfly is held in a sunbeam, an insect in amber.”
― Rob Cowen, Common Ground