Bea Goode-Parson

“[A]s with all His Majesty's ships, you shall find yourself living amongst an odd cabal of both rogues and gentlemen. Be clever, Henry. Model yourself upon the gentlemen.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“She had never before possessed the courage for such remonstrance, but love had emboldened her, and her mind felt like an immaculate engine.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“What proportion of the peasantry was well off and what poor is judged by what they bequeathed, and since the poorest had nothing to leave, they remain mute. For no other class is that famous goal of the historian, wie es wirklich war (how it really was), so elusive.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“In every way mosses could seem plain, dull, modest, even primitive. The simplest weed sprouting from the humblest city sidewalk appeared infinitely more sophisticated by comparison. But here is what few people understood, and what Alma came to learn: Moss is inconceivably strong.
[...] Moss grows where nothing else can grow. [...] Moss has the temerity to begin luring the forest back to life. It is a resurrection engine.
[...] The only thing mosses need is time, and it was beginning to appear to Alma that the world had plenty of time to offer.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things