Basia

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems