Nora Rawn

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“...I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

“And yet in a way one might say that the whole of life is a tissue of prodigious coincidences”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton