Stephanie B

“The words (she was looking at the window) sounded as if they were floating like flowers on water out there, cut off from them all, as if no one had said them, but they had come into existence of themselves. "And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves." She did not know what they meant, but, like music, the words seemed to be spoken by her own voice, outside her self, saying quite easily and naturally what had been in her mind the whole evening while she said different things.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“He keeps his deepest belief tight to him: that people are good and want to be good, if only you give them a chance.”
― Lauren Groff, Arcadia

“Moon woke me up
nine times
—still just 4 a.m.”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho

“I fly, I crawl, I weep, I laugh, I swim, I grow, I fall, I need, I want, I follow, I break, I sink, I love, I exist.”
― Anaïs Nin