SilverThorn

“Wild is the music
of autumnal winds
Amongst the faded woods.”
― William Wordsworth

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The wrong which we seek to condemn and punish,’ said Taylor, ‘have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that civilisation cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive it being repeated.’ (Moorehead, 2011, 299)”
― Caroline Moorehead, A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

“We weren’t victims,’ Madeleine Dissoubray would later say. ‘It wasn’t like the Jews or the gypsies. We saw the German posters, we read about the penalties, we heard about the torture. We knew what we were doing. It was our choice, and this gave us a strong emotional link.’ (Moorehead, 2011, 161)”
― Caroline Moorehead, A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France