Emilee

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova