Lily

“So let this be the first and sacred law of friendship: seek only the good from friends, do only good for the sake of friends - and don't wait to be asked! Be always attentive! Banish hesitation! Be ready to give advice freely! Take seriously the good advice of friends. Be ready to offer it openly, even forcefully, if the occasion demands - and also be ready to follow when it's been offered.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On the Good Life

“It was one of those almost fall days, when the sky gets pink too soon and the weakest leaves are ripped loose early by the wind.”
― Andrew McMahon, Three Pianos: A Memoir

“The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion.”
― Marquis de Sade

“There are things in your past, preserved in memory almost by chance, that only later on, because of the course your own life takes, come to seem proleptic, or significant, or fascinating, when other things don’t.”
― John Crowley, And Go Like This: Stories