Elisa

“What befalls me couldn’t have missed me, and what misses me could not have befallen me.”
― Alexandra Burt

“On these dark-blue waves, it is the sea who is judge, jury, and executioner. This is another realm, where forgiveness doesn’t exist as on land and where spirits do not find freedom among the clouds. Here, they ride the currents of forever.”
― Calvin Demmer, The Sea Was a Fair Master

“Unpleasant things are like the rain: sometimes they visit us, but there is no point in worrying about them while the sun shines.”
― Andrus Kivirähk

“People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court