Heidi

“I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Clichés so often befall vain people.”
― Ann Beattie, Walks With Men

“In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever