“The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea.”
― A Darker Shade of Magic
― A Darker Shade of Magic
“For most of us, there is only the unattended
Moment, the moment in and out of time,
The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning
Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts.
from “The Dry Salvages”
― Four Quartets
Moment, the moment in and out of time,
The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning
Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts.
from “The Dry Salvages”
― Four Quartets
“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...”
― Aurora Leigh
― Aurora Leigh
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