XeniaAnn

“It did not
kill me and
it did not
make me stronger.

It simply was
and always will
be scorched upon
my heart.”
― d.j.

“By the European Julian calendar it was already November 4, exactly one year and seven months from the date—dare she think of it—when she’d determined to withdraw the Montglane Service from its hiding place of a thousand years. But here in Russia, by the Gregorian calendar, it was only October 23.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“Life isn't given to be deserved. It's given to be lived. If you can find one thing that makes it worth seeing another day, then you've done all you're meant to do.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Psalm of Storms and Silence

“call God the Great Architect, because the first thing He designed was sound,” Bach replied. “‘In the Beginning was the Word,’ you remember? Who knows? Perhaps it was not only a word. Perhaps it was music. Maybe God sang an endless canon of His own invention, and through it, the universe was wrought.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight