Alexandra

“My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
sea the water is a color for which there is no name.”
― Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall

“It may be that you still ought to thank God; why, for all you know he may be preserving you for something. Be of great heart, and fear less.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader's, many paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears and fire; and nails being pounded into the tender flesh of a man's hands. Painters had preserved such pain through beauty.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall.”
― Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall