Evelien Daveyne

“She resolved to carry her cup to the back garden and to sit upon a bench in the summerhouse where Crumpet could curl up next to her. She was not sure why his wiry fur was so soothing when she stroked his scruffy head, but that was simply how love worked, wasn’t it? Inexplicable and utterly comforting.”
― Jessica Ellicott, Murder Through the English Post

“To surrender one's books, well: it is to surrender part of one's soul.”
― Gill Hornby, Miss Austen

“To the animist, a state of permanent enlightenment is not considered natural. His senses inform him that, firstly, life is sustained by a balance of light and darkness, and, secondly, it is lived for the most part in neither darkness nor light, but in varying degrees of twilight and shadow, of half knowing, believing, assuming and concluding”
― Emma Restall Orr, The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature

“Brewed with intent and a bit of “kitchen magic,” herbal tea offers more than meets the eye. Along with herbs and water, there’s also earth, sky, sunlight, and stars captured in this cup.”
― Rosemary Gladstar, Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use