hersha

“How do you irradiate the humbly trivial - the sneezes and waiting in bus-queues - with the lofty, and at the same time cherish above all in the lofty those things that nourish you here, today, in all your ordinariness? I cannot understand, in other words, what sort of God would bother to count every hair on my head.”
― Robert Dessaix, Corfu

“Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Ghost's Child

“Lying gets all the recompenses, then, while despair and loneliness are the rewards of constancy and fidelity.”
― Abbé Prévost