Michael Charles

“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”
― Dean Jackson

“It occurred to him that the increasing patience of age was as great a myth as the unalloyed joy of youth. The longer he lived, the less tolerance he had for the patently evil.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner

“I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“It had been so brief a sojourn, not even a full century. He had been a guest in a mansion and he was not ungrateful. He was at once exhausted and refreshed. His stay was ended. Now he must gather up the shabby impedimenta of his mind and body and be on his way again.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner