Paige

“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“if you don’t strain the strings, and then try to break them, you’ll find it a difficult job; but strain a string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the strained string will snap it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.

I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller