Orlaith

“You've got to learn to leave the table
When love's no longer being served".”
― nina simone

“Children are infinitely credulous. My Lisa was a dull child, but even so she came up with things that pleased and startled me. 'Are there dragons?' she asked. I said that there were not. 'Have there ever been?' I said all the evidence was to the contrary. 'But if there is a word dragon,' she said, 'then once there must have been dragons.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“It is hard to look into someone's eyes. Even when you love them, it is difficult to sustain it, for the sense of being seen through.”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

“Nostalgia is the suffering cause by our unappeased earing to return' Whether or not, he said, the home we long for ever existed.”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss