Hannah Crowe

“And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I love the piece of earth you are,
because in all the planetary prairies
I do not have another star. You repeat
the multiplication of the universe.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves