Colleen

“Everywhere seems bigger before you learn your way around. Take high school for instance.”
― Ted Naifeh

“You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same encounter with language. There is a heightened sensitivity in you, to be sure, but you can embrace it. It’s far more than just a nervous condition, these tears you shed when you read of Cleopatra and Marc Antony’s fall. You are a rare and beautiful thing, Sibyl. For most people, words are just symbols for sounds, made on paper. For you, they can create all new worlds in your mind.”
― Anne Rice, The Passion of Cleopatra

“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”
― Timothy Mo

“You’re only a mouse if you let them make you one.”
― Christina Henry, Alice