Sophia

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai