Nick Swarbrick

“Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be?”
― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I struggle impotently to express who I really am. Often I would confess these sins as I kneel and gabble my “Bless-me-Father-for-I-have-sinned …” but it is suffering too deep for speech, and true guilt almost too deep for conscious knowledge.”
― Maggie Ross, The Fire of Your Life

“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry