Olga

“Can this be true, this simple obvious message, or am I like those shipwrecked mariners who seize an empty bottle and eagerly read out what isn't there? And yet you are there, here, sprung like a genie to ten times your natural size, towering over me, holding me in your arms like mountain sides. Your red hair blazing and you are saying, "Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“The truth is we all need encouragement & motivation. Everybody needs somebody to cheer them on, someone who sees the best in you. There are too many people putting others down in this world. Be a positive influence in someone’s life.”
― Mufti Menk

“What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?”
― Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

“Maybe I should get a cat. The thought invades my head fully formed and utterly obvious. A cat. Another little sociopath to curl up beside me at night and keep me warm.”
― Victoria Helen Stone, Jane Doe