Sara

“...that is the way with love affairs--they occupy your mind wholly for a time, and then they become distant countries where you no longer speak the language and have forgotten all the landmarks.

[Édouard Manet]”
― Maureen Gibbon, The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet

“Why does no one tell you that work, not love, is the real salvation?

Because if we told young people how life really was, they would beat us with their fists and ask why we brought them into this world.

[Édouard Manet]”
― Maureen Gibbon, The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet

“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton