Natalie

“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“She buried her ears into the calm of his heartbeat, and in a matter of seconds; fell terribly in love with the way her loneliness fell softly and suddenly, asleep, in his chest.”
― Christopher Poindexter

“A lot of times I’ve had to pretend I felt good when I felt terrible. —Venus Williams”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture