Elly Anderson

“I would like to have seen the world with eyes incapable of anything but wonder, and with a tongue fluent only in praise.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“The interesting thing, in the photograph, was how the fragile little knock-kneed boy—smiling sweetly, pristine in his sailor suit—was also the old man who’d clasped my hand while he was dying: two separate frames, superimposed upon each other, of the same soul. And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate. There wasn’t a single meaning. There were many meanings. It was a riddle expanding out and out and out.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden