Tamara

“There were times when [he] allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life, that was to say, his conscious thinking life, in this task, that all his thoughts would have been another man's thoughts, all his work another man's work. And then he thought it did not perhaps matter so greatly... It was a pleasant subordination, if he was a subordinate.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music