Elisabeth

“And suddenly I realise that civilisation is suffering from a severe vitamin deficiency, because it cannot draw its strength directly from nature, eternally young and eternally true.”
― Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night

“That’s history. It happened whether it offends you or not. Quite a bit of it offends me, but there’s nothing I can do about it.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“The drapery was so thick and the furniture so cloaked that I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb-wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner. It wasn’t as dusty or smoky as one expects a parlor to be, but all the wood had the weight of card catalogs and the fabric seemed soaked in wine. Knee-high sculptures perched in corners and by the fireplace, while jacketless books crowded on shelves, peering down like old professors too tired to speak to one another.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's not getting over that.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares