Ellie

“I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.”
― Tana French, Broken Harbour

“If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn