Faith

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They don’t have access to all the lessons that can be learned from the journeys through the dark woods and the kindness of strangers treated decently, the knowledge that can be gained from the company and example of Donkeyskins and cats wearing boots and steadfast tin soldiers. I’m not talking about in-your-face lessons, but more subtle ones. The kind that seep up from your sub¬conscious and give you moral and humane structures for your life. That teach you how to prevail, and trust. And maybe even love.”
― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

“That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close