Eilidh

“I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.

"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. "You're magic," she said.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Do you think it’s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other’s toes, we’ll never have time to be friends.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl