Renata Bursten

“Everything is infected with brightness, throbbing with it, and she prays for dark the way a wanderer lost in the desert prays for water. The world is every bit as barren of darkness as a desert is of water. There is no dark in the shuttered room, no dark behind her eyelids. There are only greater and lesser degrees of radiance. When she's crossed over to this realm of relentless brilliance, the voices start.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“I am a knitting fool. It's a quiet pastime, and a productive one. It enables one to join in the conversation or switch one's brain off, according to the interest or the excruciating dullness of what is being discussed. And the product does keep people warm and comfortable.”
― Elizabeth Zimmermann, Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop

“And then there's this." He held up a shirt. "It'll protect you."

Carrot fingered it carefully. It was made from the wool of Ramtop sheep, which had all the warmth and softness of hog bristles. It was one of the legendary woolly dwarf vests, the kind of vest that needs hinges.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Only the Right Brained may forgive,
because the Left Brain can't forget.
Amphibrains could have migraines.
//Just Hypothesizing”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor