Ioleander

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges