Alessandra Parsons

“Life has shown me that strong friendships are most often the result of strong intentions. Your table needs to be deliberately built, deliberately populated, and deliberately tended to.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde