Angie

“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
― Maya Angelou

“Historic American Buildings Survey—HABS for short—was one of FDR’s greatest New Deal investments. Jobless folk fanned out across the country, seeking old buildings, photographing them and sketching their floor plans. Many of the structures they recorded in the 1930s were caught in the act of falling down. Some of them were documented in no other place.”
― Mary Anna Evans, Artifacts

“I reached up to press a kiss to his cheek. "Do not be too angry with Father. He did not mean it not really."

"Angry? I feel rather sorry for him. We are kindred spirits," he observed with a wry twist of his mouth.

"How so?"

"We both suffer because you will not understand how utterly essential you are to our happiness.”
― Deanna Raybourn, The Dark Enquiry

“I am sorry " I murmured.

"I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair.

"I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark.

He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.”
― Deanna Raybourn, The Dark Enquiry