Captain Silvia

“Well, if it is snobbish to exercise one's taste, then I admit I am a snob.”
― Ita Daly, The Lady with the Red Shoes, and Other Stories

“Isn't it incredible that millions and millions of the world's children don't get to live life, but simply go through each day hoping to survive?”
― Carmen Aguirre

“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.”
― Tove Jansson, Fair Play

“Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no – they were not perfect. and it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles