Hamnah

“The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile”
― Gérard de Nerval

“As she always did, when she went over the dune and saw the waves crashing on the shore, her heart leapt inside her in excitement. She still had a love affair with the ocean.”
― Sharon Brubaker, Between Earth and Sea: A Selkie Tale

“In the company of women like this - sharp-edged as raw diamonds but with soft hands and hearts, not strong in spite of anything but powerful because of everything - I feel invincible.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“I can sit alone by an open window for hours if I like, and hear only bird songs, and the rustle of leaves. The trees are pure gold and orange,”
― Virginia Woolf