Wendy

“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.”
― William Faulkner, The Town

“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.”
― Louise J. Kaplan

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod