Jasmine

“Some people believe that an attractive woman cannot stop men falling in love with her; but she can. If she really, in her deepest heart, does not want it, neither will they.”
― Stella Gibbons, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

“If you wish to bludgeon badgers or beavers or remove peregrine falcons and hen harrier chicks from their nests, a way can be found. If you wish, on the other hand, to restore fading species for nature conservation purposes, then you have to fill in 90-page documents which will be thoroughly scrutinized eventually and returned to you with a further suite of impossibly complex questions.”
― Derek Gow, Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species

“She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them”.
Geraldine Brooks”
― Geraldine Brooks

“Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker