Natasha

“Dad preferred that I lean on him, and his philosophies, rather than on those of other people. So while he encouraged me to have an open mind, and to become my own person, and to think for myself, he was very wary about the person I was becoming, and the people I was listening to.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

“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