Angela

“With tears in her eyes, Alexandra assured him that the husband and father was infinitely more precious to her than the tsar whose throne she had shared. Nicholas finally broke. Laying his head on his wife’s breast, he sobbed like a child.”
― Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra

“We are born, we suffer, we love, we die, but the waves continue to beat upon the rocks; the seed time and the harvest come and go, but the earth remains.”
― Victoria Holt, Mistress of Mellyn

“So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy!”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“You have to be so careful. You can't ever just throw words out. They have to land somewhere.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman