Chelsea

“Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive.”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment