Toni

“When you laugh, I want to transform the
entire world so it will mirror you.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when "the sea flows in our veins...and the stars are our jewels," when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot