Serra

“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“Oh, to be back there, and be young again.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“Slavery was the root of all struggle. For it was said that the factories enslaved the hands of children, and that child-bearing enslaved the bodies of women, and that rum enslaved the souls of men. In that moment I understood, from that whirlwind of ideas, that this secret war was waged against something more than the Taskmasters of Virginia, that we sought not merely to improve the world, but to remake it.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“WHY SHOULD SHE want to be married?” “It’s not as though she could be in love. She’s forty.”
― Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love