Marie

“I shall break my journey home at Istanbul and spend a few days exploring the city. All my life I have wanted to see Santa Sofia. And then, I shall treat myself to a sleeping car on the Orient Express. After all, at my age I deserve these little luxuries"... John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. In Michael Bakewell's full cast BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia.”
― Agatha Christie

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“There is such a powerful eloquence in silence. True genius is knowing when to say nothing, to allow the experience, the moment itself, to carry the message, to say what needs to be said. Words are less important, less effective than feeling. When you can sit in perfect silence with someone, you truly know how to communicate.”
― Richard Wagamese, Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables