Sylvie

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the Earth's greenings. Now, think.”
― Hildegard von Bingen

“Reason is the root, through which the resonant word flourishes.”
― Hildegard von Bingen

“She is so bright and glorious that you cannot look at her face or her garments for the splendor with which she shines. For she is terrible with the terror of the avenging lightning, and gentle with the goodness of the bright sun; and both her terror and her gentleness are incomprehensible to humans.... But she is with everyone and in everyone, and so beautiful is her secret that no person can know the sweetness with which she sustains people, and spares them in inscrutable mercy.”
― Hildegard von Bingen