Ells

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Falling in love is kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.”
― Spike Jonze, her

“People should be changed by world wars," I said, "else what are world wars for?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night