Nela

“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“She watched him take the trumpet from its case and fit the mouthpiece. She watched as he raised it to his lips and then, so suddenly, from that tiny cup of metal against his flesh, the sound would burst out like a glorious, brilliant knife dividing the air. And the little room would reverberate and the flies, jolted out of their torpor, would buzz round and round as if riding the swirling notes.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle