Melanie

“I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“It’s not just Pandora who had that inescapable flaw. It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes them do wrong and stupid things.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of
accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put,
was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much
has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful
and useless, how I am nourished and starved?”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard

“I believe for most of us - for me, certainly - what's below the skin is more worth looking at than what's outside it. Turn me inside out and I'd be quite a handsome man!”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent