Tami

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“She felt all right. Her heart was like a drum hanging from piano wire in her chest, slowly, slowly beaten. Her hands and feet were numb, not with cold but with a sultry torpor. Thoughts moved with a tranquil lethargy, her brain a leisurely machine imbedded in swaths of woolly packing.

She felt all right.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden