Natasha

“We're always looking for the full open leaf, the open warmth, the promise that we'll one day soon surely be able to lie back and have summer done to us; one day soon we'll be treated well by the world.”
― Ali Smith, Summer

“You've got to use every moment. Because in the blink of an eye it's past you, and you never get your time again.
Forgive me, Grace, Charlotte said smiling, but I think that's rubbish. I believe we meet our times with our full and ready selves at whatever ages we are when the times happen to us. That's what it's all about.”
― Ali Smith, Summer

“Oh dear. My heart always starts racing as I approach the future audience to the fact of my existence.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

“The old and the dead are the most rewarding people to idolize, because they know things that we don't.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth