Mel

“There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“The world is so big and life could be fragile…but not so big that one person can’t do something to change it.”
― Jacinda Ardern, A Different Kind of Power

“For one human being to love another is perhaps the most difficult task of all, the epitome, the ultimate test. It is that striving for which all other striving is merely preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“For the first time I experienced a place where nature is big and we are small. I understood that wilderness was what my human brain and body had been adapted to for millennia and that the only life I’d known, in a crowded city, was a profoundly unnatural habitat for my species.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days