Sandi

“What is it about this twilight hour? Even the sound of a barely perceptible breeze pierces the heart.”
― Ono No Komachi, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

“The I realized no one wants to hear heroic stories, but everyone likes to be told about someone else's misery.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Painting As a Pastime