Rosyosy

“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. And as soon as”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.”
― L.J. Smith, Daughters of Darkness

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic