Adeline Lydia

“Not every flower belongs in every garden.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Able to exist without regular doses of romance or flattery from my solitary farmer of a father. Able to cheerfully plant gardens of daisies among the inexplicable stone walls of silence that my dad sometimes builds up around himself.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“My mother always said it's very rude when people who can't sleep wake up people who can. My father had a different perspective. "You can't imagine," he told her once over a bleary breakfast, when he'd poured his orange juice into this coffee and salted it as well. "You can't imagine the white-hot fury someone who can't sleep feels toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“--until I'd gotten distracted by a cardinal outside the window. He was squabbling with a twig, hankering after something I hadn't figured out yet . There are no red birds in California, and the state is poorer for it.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves