Serena

“It can't drag on this way much longer," she said to herself. "One evening he'll whistle under my window, I'll go down by a ladder or a knotted rope and he will carry me away on a motorcycle, off to a den where his subjects will be assembled. He'll say: 'Here is your new Queen.' And... and... it will be terrible!"
viii. Their Queen is away and anarchy reigns! The Journal said so! How grand to be Queen, with a red ribbon and a revolver...”
― Colette

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.”
― Dana Kramer-Rolls, Way of the Cat: Nap, Do Nothing and Stretch Your Way to a Blissful Life

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi