Rachael

“Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina