Seonad

“Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

“I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats and
rain, rain and cats, very nice, good
night.”
― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories

“She found herself, for the first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair ... the face of a young woman, all splendidly drawn, down to the hands, and splendidly dressed ... And she was dead, dead, dead”
― Henry James, The Wings of the Dove