Paltia

“Like the piano player, I have memory in my fingertips. I watch words spill out creating worlds, inventing colors, bridging generations.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“To tell the truth, I rather enjoy the mystery. I will let it remain impenetrable for the time being.”
― Damian Murphy, Wound of Wounds

“There is a Portuguese word, saudade, that they say has no translation. It’s bigger than homesickness or missing someone. It’s a yearning that can be expressed in no other language. It is, as one Azorean friend puts it, “a strictly Portuguese word.”
― Diana Marcum, The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

“Autumn was coming. the evergreens might not have noticed, but the Sycamores did: they waved thousands of yellow leaves..”
― Delia Owens