Andreea Toader

“The land lives,” is how one young rancher put it to me. But now that the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area contains more people than Montana and the Dakotas combined, I fear that his attitude will prove incomprehensible to modern, urban Americans who live as if they have outgrown the land that feeds them, as incomprehensible as a similar reverence for the land among Native Americans was to the railroad barons, merchants, and immigrant farmers of a century ago.”
― Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

“For me, the Condé was a refuge from all the drabness I anticipated in life. There will one day be a part of me—the best part—that I will be forced to leave behind there.”
― Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth

“But this was just filling in the time pleasantly. He wants someone to worship, not to know.”
― Simon Callow, Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

“John was a man of few words and many grunts and one of his grunts could express a volume. He had a variety of them which he adapted as the situation arose. But they all seemed to express his view on life, the principle of which was, ‘you leave me be, and I’ll leave you be’;”
― Catherine Cookson, Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger