April Pfrogner

“This old dead hero had one only daughter left of his race; a beauty that, to describe her truly, one need say only, she was female to the noble male; the beautiful black Venus to our young Mars; as charming in her person as he, and of delicate virtues. I have seen an hundred white men sighing after her, and making a thousand vows at her feet, all vain, and unsuccessful; and she was, indeed, too great for any, but a prince of her own nation to adore.”
― Aphra Behn, Oroonoko

“Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.”
― Aphra Behn, Oroonoko

“A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.”
― Aphra Behn, Oroonoko

“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy