Veronica

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin