emma grace

“Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.”
― St. Thérèse de Lisieux

“‎"The incapacity of sound sleep denotes a mind sorely wounded.”
― Charles Brockden Brown

“Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,--
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese

“There were letters for her at the bureau-one from her brother, full of athletics and biology; one from her mother, delightful as only mother's letters could be. She had read in it of the crocuses which had been bought for yellow and were coming up puce, of the new parlour-maid, who had watered the ferns with essence of lemonade...”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View