Abbyofgail

“They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it’s because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.”
― Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo

“One thing I will say, they often take it better than a man. Pain, that is. Probably the residue of tolerance from when they were all bloody witches and got stoned or burned or drowned for it, eh lad? Never tell your mother I said that, by the way.”
― Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo

“People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.”
― Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo