Hazel

“Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“A garden is composed of a variety of clocks, Aritomo had once told me. Some of them run faster than the others, and some of them move slower than wee can ever perceive. I only understood this fully long after I had been his apprentice.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists