Serena

“When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“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

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

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire