Michelle

“There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk—to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth von Arnim's Collected Works: The Enchanted April, The Solitary Summer, The Benefactress, Vera, and More

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“In the evening, when everything is tired and quiet, I sit with Walt Whitman by the rose beds and listen to what that lonely and beautiful spirit has to tell me of night, sleep, death, and the stars. This dusky, silent hour is his; and this is the time when I can best hear the beatings of that most tender and generous heart.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer