Jossalyn

“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Isn't it lovely to be lovely me!”
― Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate

“Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from truth, were burst by the Brontës or elaborately untied by George Eliot. Yet the fact remains that Jane Austen knew more about men than either of them. Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“The Three Elders of the World,’ he said, ‘are the Owl of Cwm Cawlwyd, the Eagle of Gwernabwy, and the Blackbird of Celli Gadarn.”
― Susan Cooper, The Grey King