Megan Rainey

“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“She gave anyone who saw her a sensation of April and of dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of auroral light in womanly form.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables